Word: cleverer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Clever and unjust men behave like racers who make a good run of it from the start, and collapse on the way from the turn; they . . . end up by being laughed at like a lot of fools, and run away uncrowned with their ears down on their shoulders, but real racers keep on to the finish, and win the prizes and the crown...
...assurance Friday that certain books would be available. This news was very discouraging for the straight-backed, though desperately late, crammer. If Lamont as yet has no effective way of making sure that at least three copies remain within the library, it must develop one. The Desk One people, clever as they are, ought to be able to find some way of checking the exodus of the world's existing Great Literature...
...host who is always dashing about to show his guests something new. His unusual versatility, again, would pay off better if it were all done in one piece, if it could quick-change, nightclub-style, from tap dancing (Sammy's real forte) to vocalizing to clever imitations to blowing a trumpet to banging the traps...
Goodman's other work in this issue consists of a short story and a series of tangled aphorisms. The story, while clever, is unimportant. The aphorisms, much too heavily burdened with the jargon of the psyche, seem on the verge of saying something. Perhaps they do, but for most readers they will be unrewarding...
Ignatius of Loyola was clever, dynamic, disciplined and ambitious-qualities that make captains and kings. But instead of a great empire builder, Ignatius became a great saint; instead of an army, he created and commanded the Society of Jesus-the Jesuits...