Word: directness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Along with 18 other U.S. newspaper and magazine editors and publishers,* I returned recently from a 22,000-mile flight inaugurating Pan American Airways' new direct route to Johannesburg, South Africa. During six days there, we were guests of the Union of South Africa and our host was Minister of Justice and Interior Harry Lawrence. I am sure I speak for my colleagues when I express my gratitude for a singularly exciting and enlightening trip and a too brief but very interesting look at South Africa's principal cities...
Both factions have been loud and determined, and have rarely been concerned by conflicting arguments within their ranks. The Seaway has proved itself a regional issue, defying party precepts and platforms. In the recent fight, for instance, New York's governor and junior senator, both Republicans, were in direct opposition, and in 1946, Chicago's Ed Kelly and Henry Wallace joined in praise of it. Now, of course, the cry of the Mid-West is "wait 'til next year," when the venerable Seaway will make another appearance in the halls of Congress and probably be booted out again...
Prayer is the subject of the Cloud-the wordless, upthrusting prayer of the soul seeking direct experience of God. Such a soul, says the author, must approach God with a "meek, longing love" and a "naked intent unto God alone, and not to anything that He has made." Meditation, even upon the goodness of God, is distracting; he who would follow this path must put aside all thoughts and images and concentrate his whole being on a yearning hunger for God. "The first time that you try you will find only a darkness, as though it were a Cloud...
...Last week there was a spate of new developments. Arcturus Radio & Television Corp. was readying sets that need no aerials at all (price: around $400 to $1,400). Electronic Laboratories, Inc. began marketing a plug-in gadget ($80 for table models; $120 for consoles) to make sets work on direct current, thereby adding 300,000 potential customers in Manhattan alone...
Gothic Fogs. If only because Juenger had to engage in some mystification to confound the censors, there is no direct correspondence between actual events in Europe and the development of his novel. What he does, however, is to recreate with great skill the emotional atmospheres of totalitarian terror. The pastoral scene in which the brothers explore the meanings of nature & man is transformed into a fearful and terrifying "battleground full of ominous Gothic effects-miasmal fogs that confuse the Chief Ranger's victims, weird battles between dogs that suggest the means by which Hitler dominated Europe, thick smoke arising...