Word: eminentance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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¶ "Children who are to become eminent do not like schools or schoolteachers." Many famed men found their own homes more stimulating, preferred to skip school and read books omnivorously. Today's "regimented schools" would not consider them college material.
To the Scaffold. The schism brought wars, rebellion, and shaped the history of Britain. Henry VIII beheaded the two most eminent men of his realm: Sir Thomas More and John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester. In the Roman Catholic revival under Henry's daughter, the Queen the English called "Bloody...
On his 86th birthday, Sir Winston Churchill, recovering from the fracture of a minor bone in his back from a bed room fall, abruptly announced that he intended to rise phoenixlike and have a party. When Lady Churchill and his doctors vetoed the inspiration, Britain's most eminent citizen...
Withering Fruit. The decline of the sense of responsibility within "our general economic life" has led to a "lack of truly responsible leadership, both on the part of management and of labor." Internationally, a similar decline is shown by the feeling that "adherence to the United Nations absolves us from...
Leaden Capes. The left-wingers have no pre-eminent leaders but a great many troubled followers. A barrage of manifestoes filled the press-manifestoes of Academicians, of mathematicians, of teachers. Left Bank intellectuals were asked to sign the Manifesto of the 49, only to discover they had already signed it...