Word: inners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rabbit punch, Edith more than proved her talent for infighting, and soon attracted the attention of an important matchmaker. Last December London's learned and respected lawyers' debating club, the Hardwicke Society, invited Dr. Summerskill to come and stage a few fast rounds of debate at the Inner Temple with Britain's big fight promoter Jack ("Mr. Boxing") Solomons. The proposition : "That this house wishes professional boxing to be banned...
...vine, like the guerrilla leader Markos in Greece." But what price would the Moscow-Peking axis exact for such a boon? If the enemy offered it at all, the price would be high. To which Paris replies, hopefully, that they detect an "appetite for negotiations" and signs of inner tiredness among the Viet Minh...
...about soap operas is finding a good, all-inclusive title (An example of a good one, cited by Winsor: CBS-TV's Love of Life, featuring Peggy McCay and Dennis Parnell). He had a very bad time with a new show that was originally called Bright Star, then Inner Conflict, then simply Harry (which has become at Biow the working title for all new scripts). Finally, Winsor thought up The Storm Within, a title that seemed to have everything until the sponsor pointed out that it was just a thought too appropriate for the product it would plug: Bisodol...
...Cave." Bluff Ohioan Bab bitt seemed a mart out of his time. Causes were bursting all about him, and the only kind of conscience that seemed fashion able was the social kind. Rolling a pencil between his hands, Babbitt spoke of the "inner obeisance" that man must have "to something higher than his ordinary self." He despised the new ethics that was based entirely on the assumption that the only "significant struggle between good and evil is not in the individual but in society." In one sense, Irving Babbitt almost blasted Nathan Pusey's academic career. His broad humanism...
...time the argument had spread to Sweden and Denmark and inflamed letter-writers had quoted practically the whole Bible, a damnable thing happened to perdition-preaching Theologian Hallesby: he was convicted of tax fraud over a period of at least ten years. He resigned his presidency of the Lutheran Inner Mission Society, stopped preaching, canceled a lecture tour. But the pother he had started went on. Should Hell be preached as part of the Gospel, or shouldn...