Word: forsaken
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Occasionally, Teacher MacDonald allows, her American sixth-graders were "sensitive and brilliant." Somehow, the troublemakers "picked it all up ... in a way that many of our more studious classes might envy." One day she read them Matthew Arnold's The Forsaken Merman, and "there was dead silence, everyone as deeply attentive as a devout congregation in church." It was one day when victory went to teacher...
Then Edwards fell in love with an actress, and just when Misia was feeling most deeply forsaken, Jose Maria Sert, the Spanish painter, walked into her apartment wearing a sombrero and Spanish cape. Before leaving, he asked her to go to Rome with him for a few weeks. Amused, irritated and taken aback, she heard herself say she would be delighted. With Sert she "knew what it was to have a dazzled heart," and for the first time had the "calm and frightening feeling of something final...
...William Ward Ayer, onetime pastor of Manhattan's Calvary Baptist Church, warned Protestants against the spell of "individualistic" evangelists. "Biblically orthodox leaders have espoused a loose individualism in which order and decorum in church life have been forsaken, and have allowed appeals by religious 'glamour boys' to capture the imagination of the religious multitude, and millions of dollars have been poured into causes that have little effect upon the advancement of organized Christianity. These . . . unanchored movements, while undoubtedly helpful at times, may easily become the instrument that will disintegrate our organized Protestant church life...
Today, going on 40, the Babe has forsaken all forms of sport except golf. She is star and chief drawing card of the women's professional golf troupe which last fortnight began its ten-month barnstorming tour in Tampa...
...bewildering changes of his world-the new discoveries, the rise of nationalism, and the incapacity of the 16th century popes to order Christianity as their predecessors had. These doubts "did not take the pale form of modern agnosticism, but [they were] the much more terrifying doubt whether God had forsaken him or no longer cared about this man, Martin Luther...