Word: doerring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scholarly research and thought. Zweig's biography of Erasmus is not a conventional biography; it is rather a perceptive study of the great thinker as a representative of sixteenth century Humanism, a cold unimpassioned word picture of a mind rather than a man. Erasmus was a thinker not a doer; it was he who laid the foundation upon which Luther based his violent departure from the past and the unity of Christendom in the West. Erasmus was an enlightener, a teacher of reason, a vigorous opponent of unthinking subjection to tradition. This cloistered scholar in a brief seven days...
...feature, Young Sinners, seriously. Nor would it be desirable. Purporting, as it does, to display the futility of existence as existed by modern youths and maids it makes out a very pretty case. Many more feet of film than is necessary are used to impress that the jennesse doer of today waste both time and money in parties a la whoopee. These sequences are unduly exaggerated, and for one who is spending his youth at present hardly convince of verisimilitude. But sense the point is made, the period of rehabilitation is entered and the story moves to an interesting...
Sway. When the College of Cardinals locked themselves up in the Hall of the Conclave to elect the 261st Pope, there was no medieval bickering and dickering for the office. All were agreed that the next Pope must be capable of vigorous action, a doer as well as a thinker, an executive as well as a mystic. The influence of the Church over the earth must be extended, its sway reestablished. The time. 1922, was propitious for both. Religions gain when peoples are spiritually disorganized and muddled, as they were just after the War and still...
...doer, not a talker," he snapped. "In the words of the great Lord Nelson Peru expects 'every man to do his duty...