Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Markoosha Fischer's indictment of Moscow correspondents (TIME, Dec. 17) is, it seems to me, unfair to a lot of American newsmen. . . . The contemporary "freshmen in world politics" almost to a man fought the good fight with the Narkomindel in an effort to secure greater access to information and a freedom from arbitrary Soviet censorship...
...desired objectives . . . can not be reached if we are led to expect more and more for less and less effort; if labor organizations or industrial organizations are to take purely selfish positions that block the road to production and distribution; or if political leaders are unwilling to face a reduction in Government expenditures and are to assume that a policy of deficit financing can succeed any better in the future than it did in the decade 1930-40. The result of these can be nothing but the debasement of our currency and a lowering of the standard of living...
Degradation & Dignity. Sartre's philosophy undoubtedly responds to the desperate need among modern pagans in Europe and elsewhere to find some rational justification for individual life and effort. But to the Christian philosopher, the gospel according to Sartre will appear hardly more than another faddist version of Materialism. And the critical mind of France seemed still to be at work in the weekly, Les Nouvelles Littéraires which castigated it as a "fad of ugliness-Sartre's books seem to be a transcription of the mental life of ignoble and tranquilly abnormal people . . . sickening mixture of philosophic...
...Observer, common-sensical Air Chief Marshal Sir Philip Joubert quarreled with nutrition statistics that "confuse existence with life." He argued: "One can exist on the fruitless, starchy, dismal diet of Britain today, but what matters is liveliness, vitality, vigor. We are being called on to make a tremendous industrial effort. . . . That needs live folk, not mere existers...
...Truth is that for the past four rather trying years, with the best intentions, I resorted to stimulants in an effort to do more and better work...