Word: insofar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...criticism must be amoral. The criterion should be: is this a sensitive and powerful expression of the artist's feeling? Right, wrong, social value, middle-class morality etc. should never enter into artistic criticism. Granted, artists are deeply concerned with moral issues: their concern should not concern us expect insofar as it contributes to the aesthetic value. "Forever Amber" and "Shore Leave" can and should be condemned only from this aesthetic standpoint, any other criticisms must be recognized as moral ones. Morality is the brass knuckles of artistic criticism...
Bevan was unabashed. The figures simply meant, he said, that more Britons needed medical care than anyone suspected. "Insofar as the figures show that suffering is being relieved," cried Bevan, "we should be proud!" Though initially reluctant, 90% of Britain's dentists and 86% of her physicians had now joined the plan. "Had they not come in," Bevan declared triumphantly, "I should not have had a deficit, but a surplus. I should have been praised by the Opposition for being a financial success-but I should have been a failure as a Minister of Health...
...beaten in 1948. He has not yet lived down his 1946 "disclosure" that U.S. troops had sired 14,000 Japanese bastards-though the G.I.s had been in Japan only six months. Such bobbles did little harm. But his campaign to bring the boys home in 1945 was more serious. Insofar as it succeeded, it weakened the hand of the State Department around the world...
...Dealism or Keynesianism? First, and foremost, it is the responsibility of government to guarantee a minimum of demand and a relatively stable demand; for these are the sine qua non for a prosperous economy. That does not mean a steady accumulation of public debt or continued inflation. It means, insofar as the broad objectives of public policy allow, minimum public expenditures and maximum taxes (and repayment of debt) in periods of exuberance (1946-48), and increased public expenditures and minimum taxes in periods of depression. It means lacing public activity with private. The way to deal with inflation...
Once or twice, as in the dancelike shouting of The play's the thing, he verges on hollow flamboyance; and he may fall to the floor once too often. But such excesses are rare and disarming; mostly, insofar as he errs, he errs nobly on the side of restraint. He pours out the marvelous liquids of the first soliloquy (0! that this too, too solid flesh would melt) very tenderly and melodiously, but with little of the anguish which lies half-awakened beneath the bitter mildness. To be, or not to be is spoken in a stoical quietude...