Word: review
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chiefs of staff first flew to Frankfurt, where they conferred with representatives of Luxembourg (military strength: two battalions) and Italy. Then they went to London, where brief staff talks with British, Norwegian and Danish military leaders were sandwiched between a reception at Buckingham Palace and an air review by 24 U.S. Superfortresses...
...conclude a review of Stephen Seley's book with: "It is now 24 years since James Joyce gave the world, in Ulysses, his great experiment in stream-of-consciousness writing. Baxter Bernstein not only recalls the horde of little streamlets that bubbled up in the master's wake but proves once & for all that though the great original is still alive and glowing, its imitators are only fit to be dropped thhhh into the cuspidor" [TIME, July...
...Shoemaker, stick to your last!" was the sound advice dealt out to his fellow craftsmen by hardworking, he-man Author Ernest Hemingway in the afternoon of a full life. "If a writer," wrote Ernest in the New York Times Book Review, "became a critic or entered other fields it could lead to grave humiliations . . . Think of how it could shake a writer's confidence to lose the Secretariat of Agriculture to Louis Bromfield in some little smoke-filled room, or wake some morning to find that it was André Malraux who was managing De Gaulle instead...
Since war's end, Salzburg has had to watch the rise of another fine summer festival at Edinburgh. Said one Salzburg conductor last week: let Edinburgh go on being "an international, large-scale musical review"; Salzburg had its own "vernacular"-which was another way of saying that Salzburg would stick to the old tasks, and accomplish them...
Digging out an eleven-year-old copy of the Saturday Review of Literature, the syndicate found that Canby had indeed lauded the "homely genius" of Peg's style, had even called him "that most hard-hitting and expressive of contemporary American journalists," and had gone on to quote two paragraphs from a Pegler column. The syndicate promptly slapped Canby's encomium into its ad. Just as promptly, Canby objected: "This [article] has been quoted without my permission and without the permission of the Saturday Review, where it is copyrighted...