Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...former Prime Minister can indulge himself by wondering out loud whether McCarthy or Eisenhower is the more powerful. The anti-American New Statesman & Nation finds in McCarthyism the thickest stick it ever brandished. Hardly anyone in Britain laughs when the New Statesman says: "The Hitler-McCarthy analogy is disturbingly apt." It goes on with a typical distortion of McCarthy's power, finding him in alliance with "powerful interests in contemporary America," including "a substantial part of American Roman Catholicism" and "many American industrialists." The New Statesman smugly concludes: "It is anti-Communism that binds these social forces together...
...British Ambassador Cecil Spring-Rice was prone to reveries, during which he was apt to forget that he was attending an official function and think he was watching a play. When, at Princeton, a bishop intoned a superb benediction, Spring-Rice was so impressed by the "performance" that he brought his hands together with a resounding clap," and was only saved from further applause by Astronomer George Ellery Hale, who nimbly pinned the ambassadorial elbows together from behind...
Posterity is likely to take a kinder view. If he never wrote an "experimental" poem in his life, his Highwayman is still one of the most rousing rhymes in the schoolbooks, and is long apt to be so. If his preferred friends on two continents were unfailingly genteel-and apt, like himself, to deplore "that curious modern tolerance for things which ought not to be tolerated"-he has written, in Two Worlds jor Memory, a candid and gossipy account life & letters on the old Right Bank...
...look. For classmates of 1928 who have been out of contact with the University since graduation, the new look is evident; Harvard is chock-full of new buildings, new courses, new ideas about education to keep pace with the times. Whether the "old pot" label is as apt this year as before is a moot question--especially since the Corporation has selected a new President from the Class of '28: a man young in both the freshness of his ideas and vigor of his leadership...
Nineteenth century British liberals agreed more often than not with free-thinking John Thelwall, who blew the froth off his beer and said: "So would I treat all kings." The majority of 20th century Socialists are more apt to raise their pints in ancient and loyal homage. The change has come about because British monarchs, since Victoria, have learned to express and affect what modern men call "the aspirations of the collective subconscious." Historian Walter Bagehot thought a better name was "magic," and held that too much light should not be let in on it. For the heart...