Word: afflatus
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...offer," but in effect a blaring success. Amiable Mr. Goodman seated himself in his reed section, his professional spectacles gleaming, and Count Basic began thumping a blues on the piano. For two or three choruses it looked as though the boys were not going to get off. Then the afflatus descended, Goodman took a chorus, Trumpeter Harry James cut one and the whole group swung out. The audience of 3,000, infected, pounded its feet in unison. In the best and truest sense, the joint actually was rocking...
...paper you know damned well that to keep one's Judaism in the background is no evidence of an inferiority-complex, but a keen and necessary political move. For the world is filled with Naziistic persons like the editors of TIME, to whom Jew-baiting gives a sadistic afflatus...
...pardonable feeling of afflatus attends such moments, an afflatus which the CRIMSON voiced one November day in 1915 when it moved into its present quarters on Plympton Street to become thereby the first college paper in the country to hold a building of its own. Indeed, on these occasions Virgilian metaphores spring full-armed from the typewriter keys. The Yale News can be forgiven for seeing itself as a phoenix rising from the Fayer-weather ashes. As for the CRIMSON, it has never felt inclined to personify itself as a bird, what with the horrible example of the Ibis...
...Afflatus Gandhi came two days before to Lucknow with Pandit Motilal Nehru in order that the latter might have x-ray treatment. He died of a lingering illness, aggravated (many of his friends maintain) by repeated British doses of imprisonment...
...hundred thousand Indians surrounded the funeral pyre of Martyr Motilal Nehru when it was presently set up at Allahabad, at the junction of the Jumna and the Holy River Ganges. The calm and temperate dead man's fiery and reckless son, Pandit Jawarhalal Nehru, was present with Afflatus Gandhi when the pyre was lighted. "I said to him not long before he died," Gandhi told the multitude, " 'My dear friend, we will surely win home rule, if you survive this crisis.' "He replied, 'Why, you've already won home rule!' ': In the excitement...