Word: formful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Western powers, on their way to the pink palace, were in top fighting form. They could point to a united Western Europe whose people, American observers believed, were now better off than at any time since 1914 (excepting a few short years of peak prosperity). That was perhaps the West's biggest asset. Wrote London's clear-eyed Economist: "If the victory at Berlin proves anything, it is that the way to deal with the Russians is to make stiff terms and to stick to them inflexibly . . . Firmness is now justified up to the hilt...
When Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor took over the National Geographic in 1899, he likes to recall, the circulation was so small (900) that "I could carry the entire issue on my back." Today, says Grosvenor, who shares his magazine's passionate addiction to detail, "A single issue would form a pile more than eight miles high, or 79 piles each as tall as the Washington Monument." In its familiar yellow-bordered, acorn-decorated wrapper, this month's issue reached 2,150,000 living rooms, libraries, throne rooms and dentists' offices from Maine to Monaco...
...long will it be before mankind realizes that large families are a form of selfishness?" demanded the Rt. Rev. Ernest Williams Barnes, bishop of Birmingham, in a lecture at Cambridge University last week. His audience waited for more. Bishop Barnes was at his favorite sport- setting off firecrackers under his Anglican brethren...
Peering into the future, Dr. Barnes said he had no doubt that the religion of tomorrow would be "a form of Christianity." But there would be significant differences. At present "in most European countries the Christian church finds itself allied with the landlords, capitalists and the prosperous bourgeoisie. The alliance is unlikely to be permanent, and when it ceases, a much-modified communism, supported by Christian sympathy, might easily emerge...
What to do? Character Wylie reflects that all these human misfits are signs of "the land I love deteriorating, the world I adore growing ever more miserable." He feels "lonelier than God," exhausted by his "endless efforts to put a simple idea in some form that would perfuse skulls hardened against it." It is a rough weekend for a man who thinks he is dying: Yvonne, fired by her instincts, hammers incessantly on his bedroom door; Marcia leaves Paul, and he poises himself on the terrace ledge and threatens a 16-story jump into Madison Avenue...