Word: endearing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...apparent from these quotations from The Lichtenberg Reader, Lichtenberg was a master of the aphorism. Although he produced nothing else in the realm of great literature, his amazing skill at combining a sharp wit with deep insights was enough to endear him to his great contemporaries, Goethe and Kant. Later in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries Lichtenberg was even more valued by such greats as Nietzsche and Kierkegaard who saw in him evidence of their own existential approach to philosophy. That Lichtenberg was in many ways ahead of his time is true, for in a time of rampant Enlightenment rationalism...
Actually, unpredictable Harry Golden is too complex to serve well as anyone's folk hero, and not all of his views endear him to liberals. Segregation of public facilities is evil, he says, but "private preference" is different. "When Dr. Bunche complains because he can't get into the West Side Tennis Club, that just obscures the issue. The Jews are just as bad. They want to get into the country club. Abe Ribicoff has gotten to be governor of Connecticut, and they worry about the country club...
...this was hardly the sort of thing to endear the get-tough policies of Malvern's successor, federal Prime Minister Sir Roy Welensky, to his London critics. No African, said the Earl of Lucan, could now "have any doubt as to the kind of attitude of certain of the Europeans." But last week, in the Rhodesias themselves, just when matters seemed to be getting out of hand, calmer views began to prevail. Southern Rhodesia's Prime Minister Sir Edgar Whitehead, faced with strong criticism by clergymen and lawyers, withdrew his police-state Preventive Detention Act and set free...
...Black Egg. Naturaly this does not endear little Benjy to the dirty-fingernail set in the schoolyard, but Benjy has his reward when his Good Fairy shows up. An offbeat sort decked in a baseball uniform and chomping an outsize cigar, this Good Fairy grants Benjy's only wish that "whatever big and marvelous things happen to little Benjy . . . will happen to his dear Mummy, too!" Months pass, and nothing happens until one day Mummy and Benjy drag sulky old Daddy out on a picnic. Benjy spots a giant black egg. and Daddy tells him not to fool around...
...that Congress' "attention should be directed to the acquisition and maintenance of an official residence for the Vice President," but asked for no money to buy one. This brought on unofficial suggestions that some well-to-do fellow who owns an extra house around Washington might want to endear himself to Vice Presidents by making such a tax-deductible gift to the U.S. and posterity...