Word: ever
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...puerile idleness. But nothing could be further from the truth: the pinball machine is a metaphysical microcosm. It reflects, in miniature, the unchanging processes, the limitations which define man's Free Will as well as his victimization by circumstance. First of all, it demonstrates Necessity; there is a magnet, ever drawing the ball downward to let it finally rest in its groove, until it is again called upon to begin its course anew. There is Free Will when the movement of the ball fortuitously heads toward one of the flippers and is hurled back; or when the machine is skillfully...
...only schoolbook that ever baffled him was Quackenbos' Principles of Rhetoric. No matter how he struggled, young Archibald Henderson of Salisbury, N.C. could not understand it. Finally one day his teacher blew up, slammed the Principles shut, threw the book at Henderson, and sent him from his classroom forever. "In Quackenbos," recalls Archibald Henderson, "I met my master...
What sort of citizens would such men be? The FORTUNE tellers could only guess. They would probably be good technicians, good managers, good neighbors. But would they ever do anything creative or provocative-"furnish any quota of free-swinging s.o.b.s we seem to need for leavening the economy?" Said FORTUNE: "The answers will be a long time in coming...
...Stern wishing you all a good, good night . . ." With that sign-off last week, dark, dapper Bill Stern ended the sooth program on his .Sport newsreel (Fri. 10:30 p.m., NBC) and rounded out ten years for the same sponsor, Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Co. Since few sports-comment programs ever get on a national network, and even fewer last, Stern's decade on the air is unequaled in radio's short history...
...poet-philosopher lay on his deathbed, and the idolaters whom he could no longer fight off set up on a pedestal the godlike image that has persisted ever since. The unhappy transubstantiation is described by Eckermann himself...