Word: adopting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When a native son leaves for Harvard, the folks back home are in constant fear that he will return with the above characteristics plus the additional herrer of a proper Bostonian accent. Of course, he never does adopt any of these features for he knows it would mean complete social ostracism...
...child of Mohamed." . . . Your rebukes to Mr. Jinnah are quite uncalled for. . . . The demand for Pakistan was not a result of Jinnah's imagination, but was a natural outcome of a long economic exploitation of the Moslem masses by the Hindus, who are not even now prepared to adopt a compromising attitude and to give them their...
...institute" which calls itself "Christian," its moving characterization of the sect is still a counsel of perfection. Excerpt: "Christians are not different from the rest of men in nationality, speech or customs; they do not live in states of their own, nor do they use a special language, nor adopt a peculiar way of life. Their teaching is not the kind of thing that could be discovered by the wisdom or reflection of mere active-minded men; in deed, they are not outstanding in human learning as others are. . . . They live, each in his native land - but as though they...
Furious as he was with Japanese duplicity, Halsey was quite prepared to adopt Pearl Harbor tactics himself. Even before he knew of the Japanese attack, he had given orders to "sink any shipping sighted, shoot down any plane encountered." Protested his operations officer: "Goddammit, Admiral, you can't start a private war of your own! Who's going to take the responsibility?" Said Halsey: "I'll take it! If anything gets in my way, we'll shoot first and argue afterwards...
Pritchett is most at home writing about the English tradition of picaresque heroes and prurient heroines. The 17th and 18th Centuries, he believes, produced literary techniques which later novelists have been wise to adopt. Smollett developed the physical realism and "chamberpot humor" which characterizes much of Joyce. Richardson introduced the "principle of procrastinated rape [which] is said to be the ruling one in all the great best-sellers." Fielding, Pritchett says, is the granddaddy of them all: in his work the reader can not only "pick out the perennial characters of the main part of English fiction, but . . . many...