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The Vicious Circle, by Margaret Case Harriman. A lighthearted anecdotal roundup about the bright bunch that met at the Algonquin in the '20s and '30s for food, talk and character assassination (TIME March 12).
The Vicious Circle, by Margaret Case Harriman. A lighthearted anecdotal roundup about the bright bunch that met at the Algonquin in the '20s and '30s for food, talk and character assassination (TIME, March 12).
Educators regard the Morison-Commager book, now used in more than 500 schools and colleges, as "one of the finest in its field. But Queens pondered the list of objections raised by its Negro students. One passage which struck the objectors as an insufferably lighthearted approach to human slavery:
In Florence last week, where he was having a one-man show, Caffé was a clear success. His pictures of fledgling priests skipping rope, gossiping, romping on the beach, or playing mosca cieca† have won him an enthusiastic Italian following, as well as buyers elsewhere. Painted in whites...
To the uninitiated, a lighthearted essay on such a topic might seem out of place amid the somber rumblings of the London Times's editorial page. But generations of Britons have learned to expect just such things in the Thunderer's "fourth leader," i.e., the item usually fourth...