Word: gospeleer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...minister of the Gospel...
...bread and not much to those for whom politics is the breath of life. But it will mean much to those who prefer to be human beings despite all politics. They may be appalled by the price. In Ignazio Silone's judgment, the price has not changed since Gospel days: he who would gain his own soul must first lose the world...
...There are a few other special occupational deferments: for ministers of the gospel, public officials...
...only do the U.S. Army and Navy give courses on camouflage, but the Office of Civilian Defense has established a camouflage bureau, and a number of educational institutionsצf which New York's Pratt Institute rates high with the Army—are lending a hand in spreading the gospel. In the latter organizations, many architectural students are learning ways of putting into their architectural designs refinements that permit quick, complete camouflage as necessity arises. For term exercises, students this year made models of hypothetical objectives, disguised them with the latest structural camouflage techniques...
Critic Fausset's thesis is simple: if Whitman was a great poet, it was his business to fulfill the responsibilities of one. If he was the evangelist of democracy, it was his business to write a true, not a heretical, gospel. In Fausset's opinion, Whitman never quite succeeded in being either poet or evangelist. He wrote some great poetry and some amazingly energetic verse. But on the whole, he shrank even from such responsibilities as he was equipped to recognize. He perceived a great number of democratic half-truths. He lacked the intellectual equipment or spiritual stamina...