Word: hardes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eliot House Anglicans as for the Adams agnostics, then-as well as for all the peculiar intermediate species between--The Seventh Seal can serve as a needed tonic, by raising once again the religious question in all its jagged complexity: like Bergman's knight, one finds it equally hard to believe and not to want to believe, as he sees the church's agents light the faggots round the stake, and the smoke disappearing into the vacant interstellar spaces beyond...
...Most RFA's to whom I spoke said the time spent in schools was the most valuable part of their six months training. Schools which require long periods of atendance are generally not available. Of course, a shortened basic training might allow more men into these highly specialized--and hard to fill--fields...
...windfall profits scandals, promised that "we're going to live in a goldfish bowl from now on." He was as good as his word. Mason cleaned up the FHA, went on to speed up and expand its loan program, started a housing program for old folks, worked hard for urban renewal and better quality houses for home buyers...
...right about himself: he was a child in mind as his wife (whom he married when he was 27 and she 13) was a child in fact. But it was no mythical kingdom by the sea in which he had to live, but a hard-headed republic of farmers and merchants...
Chained Lion. Poe was in the grip of Byronism, but as a Childe Harold he was handicapped. In his defiance of society, Byron had the backing of Newstead Abbey and of a hard, aristocratic realism. Poe fought blind. The search for identity was complicated in Poe's case by multiple miscasting. The gentleman, the lover, the adventurer, all cut absurd figures behind the back of Poe the poet. His sense of vocation as poet and fabulist never deserted him. It did not fail him even when Allan had him measuring yard-goods in the store, when he "ran away...