Word: brags
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...awakening in himself. But he cannot escape "a state of curious despair ... I had seen my place empty under the sun, and I had a feeling that it was always so." He finds that his resistance to sexual temptation, of which he has been proud, was really nothing to brag about, after all-"The truth was that nothing had been offered me." The role of a white-collar Faust, in short, had its drawbacks...
...captain of infantry in World War I. After the war, he plunged into the business and social life of Waco, where his father was a wealthy wholesaler, but it was not quite enough. He began to write slick-magazine stories-"the kind that not even a Texan would brag about." But he was serious enough to take correspondence courses in story writing from Columbia University. Nothing much came of it for a long time, though Cooper discovered that "I have a freak memory-I can remember indefinitely anything that is not important." Of his prizewinning novel he says...
...Start a Museum Though many a small U.S. city can brag about its town hall and its public library, few can point to an honest-to-goodness art museum. Santa Barbara, Calif, (pop. 45,000) is one that can. Last week culture-conscious Santa Barbara was celebrating its museum's tenth anniversary. One of the high spots of the anniversary show was a loan display of 30 modern paintings, including masterpieces by Van Gogh, Monet, Rouault and Braque...
...coaches and 211 new sleepers, completely rebuilt 203 of its 1,849 old coaches. It has spent $274 million on a huge dieselization program, now 92% complete, and is laying down 300 miles of new heavy track at a cost of $15 million. Says Franklin: "We don't brag about our roadbed; it needs work done on it. But there was never any time when our motive power and our cars were in better shape...
...Radford School for Girls in El Paso, Tex., waggled her finger and told St. Louis Rotarians what was wrong with U.S. parents and education. According to Dr. Templin, too many parents "pass the buck. Fathers alibi too much . . . take the path of least resistance, are too indulgent . . . lack integrity, brag at home about business deals, even though those deals have a tint of shadiness to them . . . It shows up in the children, who view ethical wrong as getting caught, ethical goodness as getting by." Parents let religious education slide, "teach about Caesar in the home . . . but not enough about Paul...