Word: careful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Studied Air. He was something new after the blunt integrity of Marshall, the glad-handing of Stettinius, the political quickness of Byrnes, the Hull who had been alternately earthy and ponderous. The new Secretary was a man who took as much care with his phrases as he did with his clothes-both had a slightly studied air of elegant informality. His unruffled aloofness was salted with a dry humor...
...chain-smoked cigarettes and once surprised some elderly churchwomen by banging on a piano and singing Oh, You Beautiful Doll. A member of no party, he called himself "progressive and liberal." At times his philosophy was reflected in pointed prayers before the Senate. Marshall once implored: "Help us to care, as Thou dost care, for the little people who have no lobbyists, for the minority groups who sorely need justice...
...Wife: He doesn't seem to care. He never says anything...
...illness. An oblique lecture to parents who may forget how easily children can develop a sense of rejection by feeling unwanted and unloved, the film ends with this moral: all the clinics and psychiatrists in the nation can only make children "a little better able to take care of themselves ... a little better able to live usefully and generously ... a little better able to care for the children they will have, than their parents were to care for them-lest the generations of those maimed in childhood, each making the next in its own image, create upon the darkness, like...
...said merely with increasing stridency as he grew older. Albert Jay Nock was persuaded that his civilization was creaking badly and in sore need of repair, but all he chose to do about it was to utter the graceful melancholies of an innate Tory who does not care to bring his own talents to the aid of a program...