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...enthusiasm. "How nearly we thought we could do without St. Francis, without St. Ignatius! Men will not live without vision; that moral we do well to carry away with us from contemplating, in so many strange forms, the record of the visionaries. If we are content with the humdrum, the secondbest, the hand-over-hand, it will not be forgiven...
...aboard American Airlines' DC-6 "Arizona," the big speedy plane was less a means of travel than of transition; a kind of big cabinet through which they could pass-with a pleasantly uneventful interval of waiting in the seats inside-from one aspect of the humdrum world to another. At 2:29 in the morning most of them were dozing. The plane, bound from Los Angeles to Chicago and New York, rode 21,000 ft. over the earth at 300 miles an hour, and the dimly lighted cabin was quiet except for the muffled drone of the engines...
...midst of an otherwise humdrum U.N. week (see above), China's Dr. Tsiang Ting-fu, a distinguished history professor and "scholar in government" (Ph.D. from Columbia), delivered an arresting speech -in effect a lecture in history that none of Tsiang's colleagues would soon forget. The historian's target was a propaganda cliche interminably used by the Russians (and by a lot of Americans who should know better): "U.S. imperialism...
...been too busy flying in the present to bother polishing up the past. One weekend every month 36 Naval Reserve pilots would converge on the Los Alamitos (Calif.) Naval Air Station and thunder off on maneuvers in their stubby Grumman Hellcat fighters-unanimously elated to escape from the humdrum chores of selling insurance, studying law or changing diapers. Their bashful, blond skipper, Lieut. Commander Collin Oveland, 32, was a weekday Mercury salesman who had dared them into the Navy's sassiest, .busiest, closest-knit Sunday fighter outfit-with first place in flight time over all other west coast squadrons...
Little Jimmy is not even a distant relation of Nolan, the terrifying and terrified Judas of The Informer, or of the cold blooded Killer-Philosopher Michael McDara of The Assassin. In the intellectual twilight of the placid, humdrum Ireland that De Valera made, Liam O'Flaherty has become all quaintness and whimsy-and a little lost...