Word: good
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since a flying hockey puck travels a good deal faster than the human body, a topflight goalie needs the knack of being in the right place at the right time. It also helps to have perfect balance, knowledge of the tactics of the opponent streaking down-ice toward the net and a thoughtfully padded uniform. In the National Hockey League, the man who seemed to combine the necessary qualities better than anybody else this season was Toronto-born William Ronald ("Big Bill") Durnan, 34-year-old veteran of the Montreal Canadiens...
...alone, would run from 11% to 24%; the national increase will probably run 8% or more. All of it would bring a high price, thanks to the Government's bounty. Said a Mississippi conventioneer: "It's just a case of taking the gravy while it's good...
...steady sound tone makes it fly straight, interruptions turn it alternately right and left (price: $25). The 10,000 U.S. retail buyers attending the toy fair did so much early Christmas shopping that the Toy Manufacturers of the U.S.A. reported that 1949's business would be just as good, if not better, than last year's estimated $400 million...
Eliot believes that there is a very good reason for linking horses and bishops. "No culture," he argues, "can appear or develop except in relation to a religion"; nor can any religion survive without the "maintenance of culture." And yet, religion and culture are not identical. A close observer can see both the bond that unites them and the element that separates them in, for instance, the writings of such men as Voltaire and Nietzsche-who contribute to culture by assaulting, and thus recognizing, the presence of the religion that makes their culture cohere...
...beings [to] go on living in the place in which they were born." Regional habits, dialects, loyalties, eccentricities and faiths all contribute to a national culture by ensuring vital "friction between its parts." In the same way, different national cultures help towards the unity of international culture; men of good will who dream of nothing but ideological and international unanimity are, Eliot warns, culture's worst enemies. In the Eliotian western world, Catholic must continue to debate with Protestant, theist with atheist, class with class, creating a "Christendom . . . within [whose] unity there should be an f endless conflict between...