Word: cravenness
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...Frank Craven is Our Town's spokesman. As he stands against a cloud-piled sky, he might be any kind of American, a farmer, an editor, a bookie. He is the village druggist. Like the other villagers, he is dirt-plain, sensible, forthright. Tolerance with him is a form of humor. He never loses his balance in between. Unlike the other villagers, he is articulate. Like most Americans, he prefers to let things and people speak for themselves. He just introduces them...
Against the night sky, the backdrop of mountain and village, Frank Craven stands listening to the Albany train whistle. He says it is on time. That is all there is to Our Town, the picture. Our Town, the poem about the American village, has meanings which do not end there. Poet Edgar Lee Masters caught them in five lines of an epitaph in Spoon River...
...possible Prime Minister because he did a good job as Secretary of State for Scotland in Ramsay Macdonald's Cabinet and yet stands well with the Tories, Sir Archibald demanded a "grand inquest." "I hope," he thundered to an Edinburgh audience, "that it is not too late for craven and irresolute counsels to be suppressed. ... I am amazed at the false prophets telling us that Hitler missed the bus, that we have turned the corner and that we are now ten times more confident than six months ago. That reminds me of the prophesy that Munich meant 'peace...
...week's end, FCC came in for a spanking itself. This time the paddle was wielded by one of its own members, Tunis Augustus Macdonough Craven, only radio engineer on the commission. In a letter to Minnesota's Senator Lundeen, Engineer Craven (who dissented from the cancellation order) labeled the reasoning of his colleagues "absurd on its face." "Nothing can stop scientific research and technical progress in a free democracy," wrote he, "if incentive is not discouraged by government. ... In my opinion, the technique of television has advanced to the stage where an initial public trial is entirely...
...books have been given since 1712. Among the awards this year were Professor Kitredge's edition of Shakspere; Morison's "Three Centuries of Harvard"; Spengler's "Decline of the West"; Craven's "Art Masterpieces"; and Sandburg's "Abraham Lincoln: The War Years...