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Winthrop's physical simplicity (some say degeneracy)--not unlike the Yard's slightly stoic animus--may be to some upperclassmen a subtle stimulous to introspection. But the House, under the present Master, maintains its tradition of laissez faire good-fellowship. The freshman who has not looked behind the chipped plaster, has not seen Winthrop...
Even as the delegates began to stream in, word reached Belgrade of Russia's announcement that it intended to resume nuclear testing. The news struck the neutrals like a slap in the face. Hardly united and agreed on anything except their common animus against a big-power thermonuclear holocaust that would endanger them all, the neutralists at first greeted the news with grim silence. Only India's Nehru stated bleakly: "I am against nuclear tests anywhere...
...tone of his talk, Lippmann's garrulous host seemed ready to dismiss the small countries as inconsequential pawns in the power struggle. Khrushchev was more concerned with Red China ("I felt that he thought China as a problem of the future") Germany and the U.S. While exhibiting no animus" to U.S. President John F. Kennedy, Khrushchev was convinced that Kennedy would fail in his efforts to reinvigorate the U.S. economy. Why? Because, said Khrushchev, "Rockefeller" and "Du Pont" won't let him. Confided Columnist Lippmann in a wry aside to his readers: "The view that he is running...
...first began to practice yoga in his early 40s was not to turn it into something Christian, but to use it for Christian purposes. His main Christian purpose: to harmonize the three elements in man which the early church fathers designated as anima (the body and its functions), animus (the reasoning, analytical mind) and spiritus (the loving soul, yearning toward the Divine...
This sort of spoofing aside, the book has a deadly serious animus: its real intention against Eliot is not to tear him for his bad verses but to attack him for his principles-which Eliot once oversimplified in his self-description as "an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature, and a royalist in politics." Lapsing into angry prose, Author Purcell elaborately accuses Missouri-born Thomas Stearns Eliot of being a reactionary, a Christian, an American, a spoilsport and ployer of anti-lifemanship, a sociologically irresponsible escapist. In a typical passage, Purcell complains that "The very great improvement...