Word: impetuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Preparations for the second Salzburg Seminar in American Civilization received added impetus yesterday with the appointment of Ronald W. Pierce '47 as Student Council representative and temporary administrative secretary to the project...
...Critic Trilling, author of neat books about Forster and Matthew Arnold, is not yet a finished novelist. He mishandles the Dostoevskian character of Maxim. A good deal of the book frays out in thin, earnest psychologizing, a weakness which Trilling's clear grey style has not enough impetus to overcome...
...Freshmen were bequeathed the Union, once a club for "unclubbed" men; but now, with the prewar social traditions broken, the Union is a sorry edition of its former self. In spite of its present position, the Union can still become the unifying center for Freshmen, once given the impetus to activity...
...circumstances which offer no alternative often the result of a chance decision or of inertia and unwillingness to take the most difficult path. But Mr. Wallace, as a private citizen, were to construct a policy it would have to be built without access to certain confidential material, without the impetus of immediate, necessary decisions, and with no aids other than common sense, a conception of what is just, and a facile imagination...
Where, if not to the physics textbooks, could the postwar world turn for a new moral impetus which it so obviously needed? The Christian churches were locked in a struggle with materialism, which had been growing for 150 years and of which Communism was the deadliest projection. There could be no evading this defensive struggle; however, it absorbed a very high proportion of the energies of Christian institutions needed in other vineyards...