Word: reference
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Well aware that they are launching a biographical buzz bomb, which may have serious repercussions in the autograph market, Author Smith & Others make haste to deny that their book is an attack on Shelley. They simply wish to show that "romantic, Pagan Shelley," whom they refer to as "the pardlike Spirit, beautiful and swift," never degenerated into respectability; that he was "a whirlwind of devastation, upsetting the life of nearly everyone with whom he came into contact and leaving an appalling trail of acrimonious litigation, financial chaos, childbirth and death, double suicide and disaster behind...
...that in your Sept. 17 issue of TIME you seem to refer to the publications by Domei in regard to the rapes, robberies, and assaults committed here by Americans, as mere statements without logic? Believe me, they are true, for I am in a position to know...
Since nominations for Man of the Year are now open, may I suggest that this year, you should not be nominating Man of the Year, but instead, Men of the Year. I refer to G.I. Joes, the soldiers, sailors and marines, who in my opinion have more than merited the title Men of the Year...
...examination of the contents of the proposed general education courses, the Committee may refer to the detailed plans drawn up in the 1940 Council report. In any event, the present Committee will probably have to lean, to a great extent, on the reports it has, by implication, thus far scorned. The authors of those reports worked, without $60,000, nearly as hard as the University Committee on the Objectives of a General Education in a Free Society...
...refer to TIME's "piece" [Sept. 24] on the Imperial Hotel of Tokyo, Japan: I happen to be the architect, and the time-honored formula for an untimely finish seems to be already well into its second stage where TIME is concerned. The formula is: first, Success, then, Arrogance, then Downfall. I refer to an all too arrogant falsehood in the piece, which was not only a gross misrepresentation of my sentiments but proving in black & white that TIME can be a reckless liar...