Word: giving
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Western culture. He is a Protestant minister and biblical scholar whose historical criticism of the New Testament, early in this century, turned out to be a theological blockbuster. Above all, he is a man who decided to turn his back on the dazzling rewards the world wanted to give him in order to serve his fellow...
Other critics of Britain's universities disagree. Editor Michael Oakeshott, in the Cambridge Journal, argues that no new tradition is needed, that the most a university has to give is "the gift of an interval ... a break in the tyrannical course of irreparable events...
...Round Men. "Such a course . . . would give the power of concentrated thought. This has a special relevance at the present time, when an increasing number . . . are subjected to conditions which render the practice of concentrated thought impossible . . . Secondly, it would have the effect, historically claimed for it, of turning out 'round men' ... It would so polish and refine their minds that they could 'get up' any subject of which they might subsequently stand in need, while the possession of a perspective and a sense of relative values would fit them for high administrative posts...
...Finally," Joad concludes, "such a course has been known to give men a serenity of outlook. It may not in our present age be the best dividend-payer from the purely utilitarian standpoint, but this at least may be said of it, that it sometimes enables men to despise the wealth that it prevents them from acquiring...
Said one of Wall Street's shrewdest speculators: "If I could find somebody who could tell me a sure way of keeping one-fourth of my fortune, I would cheerfully give him the other three-fourths." Nobody in Wall Street has yet found the "sure way." But in a world of welfare states populated with security-minded people, more investors than ever are engaged in a ceaseless search of their own for security...