Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...single TIME story among those responsible for it (reporter, researcher, writer, editor, etc.), TIME'S longstanding rule is seldom, if ever, to divulge the authorship of a story. In this case, so many of you have wanted to know the author that TIME has decided to break the rule. Speculating on the authorship of the Marian Anderson story, Marjorie Kinnan (The Yearling) Rawlings wrote: "My belated obeisances for the magnificent story on Marian Anderson. It was so beautifully written (my guess would be Whittaker Chambers) and gave such a spiritual lift." Novelist Rawlings guessed right...
...pell-mell downhill rush of thousands, it seems as if the whole city is trying to break its collective neck. Even the cops on skis spend more time carting off the fallen than keeping skiers in line...
What was wrong about your ideals, pre-war idealist? Was there something the matter with socialism or did you find other ways to give everyone an even break? What happened to the American Destiny? Wasn't it worth shielding from the filthy bickerings of Europe, or was its value really in that it should have been a World Destiny? How did your racial equality ideas go over with your Southern army friends? Or perhaps you found it easier not to cultivate any friends from the South...
...Mozart with a hard, dry purity-and sometimes, say critics, with a little too much banging. He long ago broke with Teacher Landowska, whose playing is more showy and dramatic. Says Kirkpatrick starchily: "Landowska is a great artist. But other artists take different ways. It generally means a break." Wanda Landowska also long ago stopped speaking of Kirkpatrick as her pupil. Says she: "Shall we say, my pupils must be my friends...
Edwin Packer knew no cure for the disease: a man just had to break himself of it. He concluded: "Our industrial civilization has produced, in spite of progress and the emancipation promised by science, a sense of boredom and frustration in the common man. ... A restriction on gambling in any form may merely serve to direct the emotional drive into other and perhaps less socially acceptable channels...