Word: errand
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...study of the American mind, is this: that America was begun on purpose, that it began deliberately, for a reason. This sense of mission, first religious, then political, has persisted from the beginning. Perry Miller has defined the mission for colonial New England in his rich metaphor of an errand into the wilderness. Seeing a play on the word "errand," he has explained how the first Puritan settlers came to America running one sort of errand, for a higher power--the Puritan Church in England--and how they ended the seventeenth century running, necessarily, an errand that...
...distinctive American nationalism. His declaration that the 'life and soul' of true union is neither interest nor mutual prosperity but 'love of the brethren' controlled, for an equal span of years, the prevailing American definition of patriotism." They go on to show the persistence of this element of the errand, the drive toward American union, in men like Whitman and Lincoln...
...Errand Today...
...tomfool thing that happens to cross his mind. One morning, sick of looking at a neighbor's purple house, Papa grabs a ladder and-splat! the neighbor's house is painted white. One afternoon, annoyed when a drugstore proprietor bullies the errand boy, Papa yanks out his checkbook, buys the store, makes the errand boy the boss and the boss the errand boy. And one fine day, when his daughter falls in love with a circus pony, Papa promises he will buy it and he does-even though he has to buy the circus...
...party is torn between two leading contenders who personify the warring extremes within the party that took Hugh Gaitskell seven turbulent years to pacify. Top right-wing candidate is Deputy Leader George Brown, an earthy, onetime errand boy who infuriates leftist intellectuals by addressing them as "brother." Brown, 48, is a staunch antiCommunist, a firm believer in the Western alliance, and, until Gaitskell committed the party to an anti-European line, was a vigorous advocate of British membership in the Common Market...