Word: herberts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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carols Robert Frost. "One Hundred is just around the corner," is Herbert Hoover's salutation, and Sir Winston, wintering in London, sends us "felicitations on nine decades of print, fret, toil, and smears...
...Herbert entered Harvard speaking standard American English and thinking uncomplicated thoughts. When he was sure of something--his career plans for instance--he would say: "I'm sure I want to be a lawyer." When he was enthusiastic about something he let people know in no uncertain terms: "Boy, this is really great." And when he talked about his high school sweetheart he would do so with a simple conviction that never failed to disarm his listener: "You know, Mary is the most wonderful girl in the world...
...Herbert first came into the Yard through the famous gate inscribed "Enter To Grow In Wisdom" and, ambitious Freshman that he was, determined to grow Harvard wise. He quickly learned the primary lesson that there are smooth and rough, weil-considered and ill-considered ways of saying things. It was rough and offensive not to qualify adjectives. To say, "This book is good," is too direct, too hard on the sensibilities. How much better to say, "This book is quite good," "rather good," or "sort of good." Herbert also discovered the devastating effect of the words "indeed," "thus...
...when Herbert returned to Harvard he learned how ill-considered such sweeping superlatives were. With the evidence always so dense, the number of opinions so diverse, and the ever-present danger of falling into a "value judgment," unequivocal statements were most prudently qualified by "perhaps." Herbert picked up the word from one of his professors who called a certain novel "perhaps one of the five best of the last century, Dickens works only excluded." Herbert immediately wrote his parents: "I will perhaps be a lawyer." Not that his intention to go into law was in any way altered...
...been called "the U.S. Steel of churches," he has demonstrated such warmth, simplicity and charm that he has won the hearts of Catholics, Protestants and non-Christians alike. "The Protestant Christians think that they now have the best Pope they have had in centuries," comments German Catholic Theologian Herbert Vorgrimler. The Pope's recent illness raised a tide of concern around the world. "If we should pray for anyone in the world today,'' says Protestant Theologian Paul Tillich, "we should pray for Pope John. He is a good...