Word: heart
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Socialist George Bernard Shaw said 43 years ago: "There are two . tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it." Last week in Bridlington the Trades Union Congress, representing 8,000,000 organized workers, had full possession of its heart's desire-a Socialist government. Yet under the seeming agreement among the delegates in the Spa Royal Hall was frustration, and perhaps tragedy...
...difference between Osaka and Nagoya goes straight to the heart of the Japanese character. The Japanese are a people with a split personality, and Osaka and Nagoya are extreme examples of their duality. The Japan of Osaka is progressive, militant, competent, rude. The Japan of Nagoya is hidebound, passive, polite and wary of outside influences...
Died. Macdonald Smith, 59, for almost 40 years one of golf's great stylists; of a heart attack; in Glendale, Calif. Although "the Silent Scot" made out handsomely in prize money (he won the Los Angeles Open four times), he never won a major tournament...
Died. Major General Walter Campbell Short (ret.), 69, commander of the Hawaiian Department of the Army when the Japanese attacked on Dec. 7, 1941; of a heart ailment; in Dallas. Demoted and relieved of his duties within ten days after Pearl Harbor (as was his Navy counterpart, Admiral Husband E. Kimmel), Short ended a 40-year military career by retiring from the Army a few weeks later, worked through the war as a traffic engineer in the Ford Motor Co. plant in Dallas...
...drawings (the others: It's a Long Way to Heaven, What Am I Doing Here?), all owed to the remorseless probings of Drs. Freud and Jung. Like the others, it is a grim search through the weird subconscious levels of John Doe, a search that altogether misses heart & soul but finds a spirit crushed and shriveled by what Abner Dean considers the terrors of everyday 20th Century life...