Word: briefest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long is 12,000 years? It took H. G. Wells more than 1,100 pages to cover the ground in briefest detail in his Outline. It is taking Arnold Toynbee at least six volumes in his Study. But this week, U.S. readers could get the 12,000 years of man's history in a capsule-a full History of the World (Harcourt, Brace; $3) all in 300 pages...
...unfinished autobiography and the unfinished book will not do much to change Leo's status. The autobiography shows him to be an arrogant dilettante claiming an exhaustive knowledge of subjects with which he had had the briefest brushes. At 22, he dismissed history as inaccurate rubbish. At 28, he put all the philosophy worth knowing onto two sheets of note paper...
...first play by London's zooming Christopher Fry to reach Broadway made news twice last week: first because it opened, then because it closed. A Phoenix Too Frequent was a poor choice for a debut: from the briefest of short stories, Fry had made a very long one-act play. The wit and poetry that glow brightly in his The Lady's Not For Burning (TIME, April 24) merely glint and flicker in Phoenix. But on Broadway Phoenix was as much victim as culprit: it was badly produced, and had to share the billing with something very...