Word: authorization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wold admitted that some of his information had come from Walter Trohan (TIME, Jan. 31), Washington bureau chief and topflight hatchetman of the Chicago Tribune. Under the Roosevelt barrage, Author Wold had retreated, according to Elliott, who quoted him as saying: "Much of the material in my book has been omitted, giving rise [in Look] to a completely false impression...
Point by point they answered the article by Dr. Karl C. Wold, a St. Paul doctor who had written a book on the health of U.S. Presidents. Author Wold had said flatly that F.D.R. suffered a stroke as early as 1938, and had two other strokes before the attack that ended his life. In denying all this, Anna recalled that a few days after the date of one stroke described by Writer Wold, her father had gone fishing and had landed a 235-lb. shark...
...Feeney, S.J., is a short, 52-year-old man with a mobile, dimpled face and expressive hands. A literary priest who studied at Oxford and once worked on the Jesuit weekly America, Leonard Feeney is an enthusiastic conversationalist who sometimes begins his sentences with a naive, unliterary "Gee!" The author of several volumes of poetry and essays, he confessed in his Fish on Friday: "I am given to superlatives. I overstate things . . . I say 'most' when I mean 'much.' Without the words 'tremendous,' 'wonderful,' 'amazing,' and 'astounding...
...Unanticipated Disaster." The Classical Greek and Oriental idea of the progress of man, says Author Niebuhr, was that there was no such thing. Like the endless cycles of nature, the projects and enterprises of men and nations were thought to flourish and die again & again in an eternal circle of recurrences. Man's only hope, Plato taught, was to free his spirit from imprisonment in the living death of the bodily world. When the Biblical-Christian conception of history replaced this classical view, says Niebuhr, "the dynamism of Western culture was made possible." Christian teaching viewed and still views...
...Author Norman's story is a tale of Greenwich Village innocence, before Stalinism and Sartre, when, by his account, the villains were no worse than money-making poetasters, when there was lively talk in gay Bohemian cafés, and when a hero could stalk wrathfully from a meeting of the Poetry Association...