Word: brotherhood
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...fear of war. It is in a jam in Korea, and unable right now to defend Europe. In one breath it begs its enemies to hold their fire; in another breath it confesses its own weaknesses. It does not want to get in trouble with anybody; it just wants brotherhood and peace...
...apologies for it. When a policeman speaks with horror of Kavanagh's "cold knife," Father Mellowes blandly replies that the knife "was not so cold as your justice"-which seems to suggest that, for Stuart, morality can be measured with a thermometer. Like his character, Ezra, Stuart wants brotherhood but in a typically Irish mood has no good word for humility. If men can find grace somewhere between Ezra's spiritual sensationalism and Kavanagh's spiritual sloth, they will not learn it here...
There is still one possibility. A powerful and different camaraderie exists at Princeton. It is a brotherhood born not from fraternal associations or cooperation on extra-curricular organizations. There is something still more intimate about the relationship between students in Nassau's halls, a relationship which derives its strength from community bathrooms--one in each entry...
...W.M.A.'s general assembly these assurances had greater weight than Dr. Adler's eloquence. It voted, 33 to 3, to promote closer ties with German (and Japanese) doctors by taking them into the worldwide brotherhood of healers...
...that rare 20th Century blend, a courageous man of action whose deepest values were spiritual. On his long airmail flights over desert and ocean, and on military missions over doomed France in 1940, his brooding imagination conceived a vision of life in which God, soul and the brotherhood of man shone through and outweighed all commonplace striving...