Word: faintly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Best God Can Do. To hear him talk, each of those novels is an illustration of his cheerful philosophy-a belief whose statement has faint overtones of Jimmy Durante, faint undertones of the incorrigible schoolboy. The world, he says, "may not look so good, but it is the best God can do at the time, with conditions as they exist." He also likens the world to an old sow, which would lie down lazily in the muck and never move, if it were not for the gadflies-the rebels, artists and other eccentrics-that buzz and bite in her somnolent...
Final Hymn. Most sons would by now have felt that they had revenged themselves sufficiently on paternal piety. But not Crowley. "I want none of your faint approval or faint dispraise," he wrote, "I want blasphemy, murder, rape, revolution, anything, bad or good, but strong." When World War I began, he left Ouarda in an insane asylum and hurried to the U.S., where he spent the early war years writing pro-German propaganda for George Sylvester Viereck's The Fatherland...
...made a thinly veiled attack on President Truman and Democratic Candidate Adlai Stevenson: "It is not hard to find men long on courage and short on brains. But this is no time for boldness without reflection and purpose. It is not hard to find men of fine intellect and faint heart. But this is no time for men of refined and elaborate indecision. The American people," he went on, "have been condemned [by Administration foreign policy] to live in a purgatory of improvisation...
Some changes were obvious. To make sense in 20th century English, "Libertines" became "Freedmen," "feeble minded" was changed to "faint-hearted," and "mortify" to "put to death." All the poetic passages in the Old Testament (40% of the whole including the Psalms) were translated in blank verse...
...main ambition is to "work in a businesslike way. I have no desire to play with Cambridge politics," he states, "and if I have to bend with the political winds, I'm going to have tough sailing." So far, these political winds have been faint rustlings, but observes Curry with a shrewd grin, "maybe I'm on an enforced honeymoon...