Word: heavenward
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nimble maneuvering while slipping the noose around Italy's neck. For me it has crystallized into convictions many things which up to now have been only impressions - namely that: 1 ) Mr. Eden is an overly young and ambitious careerist. 2 ) That England, whilst casting pious eyes Heavenward, seeks to have the League pull her own imaginary chestnuts out of the fire. 3) That to duck a "possible" conflict of English-Italian interests in the Red Sea area 30 years from now, she is right now, today, willing to take all the steps of the aggressor which will inevitably plunge...
...model built by his friend David Dunleavy, 18. David's plane circled prettily, made a three-point landing. Charles's zoomed up, continued to climb, climb, climb. For an hour and a half Charles chased it across town until, a tiny speck in the sky, it vanished heavenward...
...literature help the common man heavenward? It did once, when art was worshipful. Last week The Christian Century considered the state of the church's once potent ally, religious drama. Much U. S. Protestant church drama, complained Professor Fred Eastman of Chicago Theological Seminary, is of low quality. There has been improvement in recent years. But U. S. churches must strive for results comparable to those of the religious dramas of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides; or the Canterbury Cathedral play written four years ago by John Masefield, with music by Gustav Holst...
...pretty Belles Lettres. They must be poets "whom the thoughtful and instructed modern reader seeks out to experience for him. to interpret for him, to illuminate and to guide him, to face for him the inscrutable. . . ." With such vicarious help, common-or-garden men, in order to climb heavenward, need only keep their glasses polished and read the scriptures as they come.* In his impressions of the expressions of American literati, dead, alive, half-dead or simply dazed, Author Lewisohn gives the most complete modern history of American literature yet published. A little Freudian analysis goes a long...
...Vagabond there has always been something incongruous about a general who issues his military commands in a series of tripping cadenzas. There is something a trifle inconclusive about a woman of considerable girth shaking a tambourine heavenward and launching into a Spanish dance. But this is a question of taste and must not be considered fair criticism. But there is one aspect of the Opera that rankles deep in the heart of the Vagabond. It is this...