Word: contented
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Philip Neri, whose delight it was "to play the fool for the love of God," managed to be both saint and humorist-to what degree is made plain in Theodore Maynard's new biography, Mystic in Motley (Bruce Publishing Co., $2.50). Biographer Maynard contributes nothing essentially new, is content in his popularization merely to introduce to modern Americans cue of the most unexpected personalities in Catholic hagiology...
...correspondents tried to find how it was with the people in the first year of peace and in the middle of what had been heralded as a century of plenty. The evidence they produced this week (see below) indicated that the people were politically quiet, not because they were content, but because they were tired and confused and, above all, hungry...
...Teaching] should at teast not be an obstruction to learning," says Professor Hook. "What the educational system of America needs is at least a million good teachers." Hook's good teacher is a dedicated person, teaching method rather than content, and encouraging critical dissent. Classes, he thinks, should be taught by discussion rather than lecture, and limited to 20 students. Hook admits that his ideas would make education expensive to the community, but adds: "It should be. Is there anything more worthy of spending our money...
...virtually useless because it is destroyed within the body so fast (in less than an hour) that it can't get set for a knockout punch at the germs. In trying to produce a purer form of penicillin, drug companies had inadvertently made a product with high K content. (Commercial penicillin is a mixture of two to four types...
...Mayer-Burstyn), made by OWI Overseas in 1943 for European distribution, is now for the first time released in the U.S. Its star: Arturo Toscanini, who (with Tenor Jan Peerce, the Westminster Choir and the NBC Symphony Orchestra) made this movie debut, for patriotic motives, free of charge. Content: Verdi's Overture to La Forza del Destino and Hymn of the Nations, the latter with revisions and interpolations by Toscanini. (He changed Italia, patria mia-Italy, my fatherland-to Italia tradita-Italy, betrayed, and climaxed the piece with the Internationale and The Star-Spangled Banner...