Word: broadmindedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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A French student at Salzburg last summer wrote. "One of the most admirable things about the Seminar was the absence of official propaganda. Most of the American students and professors proved entirely unbiased and broadminded, willing to learn about Europe as much as we were to learn about America. . . "
I am broadminded; you are leftish; he is a Communist? . . .
Haan, a lean, rock-jawed preacher, refuses to say outright whether he has ever seen a Hollywood movie. But he knows from reports, he says, that they are loaded with "sex, drunkenness and crime ... a hindrance to the Kingdom of God." A cigar-smoker and a bowler, Haan denies that...
Novelist Henry Miller, a Paris expatriate when the going was good, is famed for his ability to write obscenities that are disgusting rather than pornographic. Last week in broadminded Paris, his onetime refuge, an anti-vice organization was trying to ban his books. And in Monterey, Calif., where he now...
But those who had eyes to see (see RELIGION) could see him working away in the kitchen, as happy as' a literate lark, as busy as a broadminded beaver.