Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ask where is his monument," said Dr. Frantz, "let them but look around at a world, one in integrity like his own, one in a passionate dedication to freedom like that which consumed him. . . . The uncorrupted instinct for true greatness has given unanimous suffrage that 'this was a man.' It is hard to lose him. But it is easier because we lose him to the immortals...
...waged so ruthless a war on private enterprise that the United States . . . is actually at the present moment leading the world back into the trough of depression. . . . Those who are keeping the flag of peace and free government flying in the old world have almost the right to ask that their comrades in the new world should . . . set an example of strength and stability...
...Deal's record at home is one long chapter of failure. But some people still tell us: 'We agree that the New Deal is a failure at home but its foreign policies are very good.' Let me ask you: can an administration which is so disunited and unsuccessful at home be any better abroad? Can an administration which is filled with quarreling and backbiting where we can see it be any better abroad where we cannot...
...fair question to ask why at this moment the Russian theater is so retrospective-why new plays are being produced this season on Ivan the Terrible and on Admiral Nakhimov of the Crimean War; why so much reverence is accorded to Chekhov, who perhaps foreshadowed the Revolution in his plays but certainly satirized revolutionaries. It has been fashionable in America to attribute this to an abatement of Russia's revolutionary and communistic spirit. This seems to me wrong. A better guess is that this country, shaken within a few inches of its life by this war, has, like...
...Salon, which opened during the week, had sent him no invitation to contribute. Aristide Maillol had never followed public events or cared about politics. He refused even to discuss the war. He merely worked on in his Banyuls house, and when plaster became scarce he sent his son to ask the neighborhood dentists for more. In leisure moments, the old man listened to music. Few modern artists have evoked such critical acclaim. Wrote Britain's Augustus John: "We can never tire of a style so pure . . . have enough of a vision so consummate. ..." Highest praise of all came from...