Word: complements
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...understandable, but it is by no means justifiable. In a free society, when opinions become unpopular and dangerous it is most important that they be expressed. To yield to the "climate of fear," to become a scared liberal, is to strengthen the very forces which one opposes. Courage must complement conviction, for otherwise each man will become a rubber stamp content to spent the rest of his life echoing popular beliefs, never daring to dissent, never having courage enough to say what he thinks, and never living as an individual, but only as part of the crowd . . . J. C. Peter...
...sketch of a thief in the toils of a serpent was included in a collection of old masters' drawings at the Durlacher Gallery. It shows the British mystic at his most frightening. Blake learned Italian in old age simply to read Dante, illustrated The Divine Comedy both to complement and criticize Dante's philosophy. For Blake, hell was on earth, not in the afterworld, but still he found it real enough. In Blake's drawing of Brunelleschi, the attacking serpent is not so much an infernal punishment for Brunelleschi's thieveries as a symbol...
...yacht. Re-christened the President Robert, the vessel was stocked with 1,068 bottles of vintage liquors, some 200,000 cigarettes, a supply of fine cigars and other necessities for gracious living on a long voyage. Then, on July 18, 1951, loaded with its complement of happy internationalists, each equipped with passport and currency bearing the signature of President Robert, it set sail, ostensibly to found a new nation in Africa...
...past nine weeks a furious little motorcade raced back and forth across the roads of Ireland. In the lead ran a seek, black Packard with Ireland's Prime Minister slouched wearily in the front seat beside a tense driver; close behind came a darting blue Ford with its complement of sleepy detectives. In district after district where the caravan stopped, farmers and townsfolk clustered round for a look at the gaunt, aging (71) hero who had won political freedom for their nation in 1922 and guided its destiny almost constantly ever since. They listened respectfully as Eamon de Valera...
...first lecture foundation in the country devoted to elementary education problems, the new program will complement the Alexander J. Inglis Lectureship in Secondary Education, which has gone to a leader in that field since 1924. The latter honors a former professor at the School of Education...