Word: afresh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Henry Pitney Van Dusen, president of the Union Theological Seminary, closed the program on the note that had begun it: "As we give thanks to those of every age, and especially our own who have merited and won the esteem and plaudits of their fellow men, infect us afresh with some measure of true greatness, vision and wisdom, fortitude and devotion for the enlargement of learning, for the vindication of right, for the betterment of society and the healing of the nation, that even in our day a fairer ordering of mankind's life may come...
...misunderstood in later years was Jean François Millet, whose studies of peasants, notably The Angelus and The Man with a Hoe, splashed him with a reputation for sentimentality. Millet himself protested that he could not understand how anybody could consider the French peasant "jolly," and today, seen afresh, the paintings justify his protests. He painted his peasants with brooding compassion, saw in them "true humanity, the great poetry," but the mood is somber rather than sentimental. They bend to their labors patiently but also hopelessly, condemned to struggle against stubborn nature day after day with hoe and pick...
...years ago, Playwright Shaw, an Irishman with a masterful but impatient command of English, left ?8,300 ($23,240) in trust to help eliminate phonetic vagaries from the English alphabet. Characteristically, he suggested that the best way to do it would be to scrap the whole thing and start afresh, and the prizewinner, a devoted English phonetist named Kingsley Read, did just that. The results of his work have just been released by Penguin Books: a trial edition of Androcles and the Lion, Shaw's famous dramatic spoof of early Christians and Romans, with the English alphabet version...
...magic lamp and Henry Ford's indestructible Model T-these are but a few of the wondrous works of Yankee tinkerers. Such inventions have enriched society and stimulated the economy by spurring consumer demand, putting men to work and raising purchasing power, which in turn spurs demand afresh...
Like Zaitsev, whose sole aim was to dodge his alimony payments, many oppressed Russian husbands try to start life afresh with forged documents and new names. The Soviet press recently reported the cases of three other tricksters, including a marital deadbeat named Nikolai Borinchuk who married four times in eight years and shuffled off his marital obligations each time by faking death; police are still looking...