Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Advice from Napoleon. This week the delegates broke up into six committees, which would accomplish whatever concrete work the Council was capable of. The committees would have a chance to agree on recommendations for: Europe's economy, social security, common European nationality and passport, joint public works (possibly including the old Jules Vernean dream of a tunnel under the Channel), and changes in the political structure of Europe to achieve greater unity...
...funeral or the flag. Women no longer bow when they meet; autoists no longer defer to skittish horses and their nervous riders on their way to Hyde Park's Rotten Row. Women stand in buses and trains while men and boys sit in comfort (a form of rudeness common even in non-Socialist communities...
Knees & Yeast. What all the most promising new cinemactors have in common is acting ability. "What these new girl starlets have in common," cracked one Hollywood whip last week, "is that they all bend their legs at the knee as they walk." Few of Hollywood's young actresses seem to have the yeast it takes to rise into the big dough. That yeast, says MGM's Casting Director Billy Grady, is a compound of "beauty and bitchiness." A pinch of acting ability can help...
What have atheists in common with saints? A great deal, suggests top-rank Roman Catholic Philosopher Jacques Maritain, now teaching at Princeton, in the current issue of the quarterly Review of Politics. "The genuine, absolute atheist, with all his sincerity and devotion," he concludes, "is but an abortive saint and, at the same time, a mistaken revolutionist...
This seemingly overworked situation has been used by Author Sansom with both sympathy and artistic guile. Readers naturally feel superior to Henry; they may also have an uneasy feeling that Henry's kind of foolishness is pretty common...