Word: benightedness
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*"[Goethe] makes things easy for himself," Author Mann once heard a "benighted" German say during a performance of Faust: "he just strings quotations together."
Now Webster dips his pen only rarely into politics. For Lincoln's Birthday 1940, Webster drew a forlorn, storm-whipped, benighted, wilderness cabin, a light in its window like the fever of birth. The caption: Ill-Fed-Ill-Clothed-Ill-Housed. During the war he drew a cartoon showing...
Over WGN (for World's Greatest Newspaper) and 135 stations of the Mutual Broadcasting System, the Colonel had some helpful hints to little girls. Said he: "Every Girl Scout should carry a compass, a watch and an electric torch.* The torch is a precaution against becoming benighted. . . . The military...
In its bare essential, "Owen Wingrave" is the epitaph of a throwback on the British military tradition. Before descending to specific criticism, it may be well to point out that this is not a pacifist play. It attacks the ideals of imperialist wars, not wars whose goal is peace. As...
When the King of Siam invited Anna to Bangkok, the royal summons read: "And we hope that in doing your education on us and on our children (whom English call inhabitants of benighted land) you will do your best endeavor for knowledge of English language, science, and literature, and not...