Word: discerner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Give therefore thy servant an under-standing heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this thy so great a people...
Julian Karell (Nils Asther) appears at first blush to be no scientist at all, but merely a London artist of the 19303 who paints such a conventionally fashionable portrait of his socialite fiancée (Helen Walker) that some of her cultivated friends discern in it "touches of genius." Others recognize it as identical in bloom and brushwork with the work of a portraitist who died some 50 years before. Even when Artist Karell lays aside the palette for a chemist's flask he is no Frankenstein, intent on making a living man out of spare parts of dead...
...Hayward), who love each other. She is also a born snob, insensitive to the rumblings of proletarian Shantytown as conveyed by her doctor, who was born there and will never forgive her for it. Since the doctor spends most of his time snarling at her, as she can readily discern by reading his lips, she is perhaps less to be blamed for not realizing that he loves...
...thought the G.O.P. candidate would win in November. "Why?" boomed one reporter. The Governor shook off the tone, replied: because of the forward-looking program of Republicans in Congress. A newswoman snapped: "I don't mean to be facetious, but I haven't been able to discern any such program." Governor Bricker smiled: "I'm hardly responsible for your inability to discern it, and I don't mean to be facetious, either...
...discern in the past a succession of levels of social awareness, like an ascending staircase. The age of religious wars ended when secular politics began to dominate . . . feudal politics ended when economic factors assumed overriding importance; the struggles of economic man will end by the emergence of the new ethical values of the new age . . . the new movement will re-establish the disturbed balance between rational and spiritual values...