Word: faintheartedness
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PRIESTS LIKE THE REV. WILLIAM C. KERNAN [TIME, MAY 26], WHO SEEK AN ULTIMATE AUTHORITARIANISM WHICH THEY CAN EXERCISE IN THE CHURCH, WILL ALWAYS FIND THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH UNCONGENIAL TO THEIR MINISTRIES. HE HAS CONFUSED AUTHORITY WITH REGIMENTATION, AND RELIGIOUS CERTAINTY WITH ECCLESIASTICAL COERCION. NOTHING WOULD SIMPLIFY THE TASK...
An air raid sends the Japs scurrying and allows Kent to save his skin. One man escapes with him, his young orderly, Anson. The two men make a long hike to safety, but one night, with shells and men screaming around him, Kent puts his arms around Anson. Before Captain...
The plotters met by night, first in one farmhouse, then in another. The Central Action Committee kept its network of subcommittees informed of changes in the plan, and every man was suspicious of all but his oldest friends. An underground handbill proclaimed to the fainthearted: "The voice of the people...
Certainly Playwright Ibsen stood alone in An Enemy of the People, lashing out in all directions at every class and kind: at the moneybags for being corrupt, at the moderates for being corruptible, at the liberals for being fainthearted, at the mob for being brute-minded. As protest, An Enemy...
2) It should only help others to help themselves: "We must always reckon that our aid can be only relative, and relative only in a marginal sense; to the efforts they themselves must make ... If their efforts are perfunctory or inefficient or fainthearted, our aid to them can scarcely be...