Word: kindness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thank you very much for your thorough view of occupied Japan . . . I want to tell you that we are steadily recovering from moral chaos . . . Small kind behaviorisms are seen in the street very much oftener now than just after the war. If we are able to go through the economic hardships of this year and the next, we should be one of the peaceful and honest nations of the world...
...refused to be dominated by admirals, but he made no attempt to usurp their jealously held prerogatives. He simply did his job, better, perhaps, than any service Secretary in history. He drove himself with a kind of quiet intensity. Year after year he worked seven days a week, from early morning until late at night. His vacations were risky expeditions under fire on the battlefronts...
...going to create a society for your well-being,' the president stated. When asked if we would have anything to say about the kind of society it would be, Dr. Ashby answered...
...There are always two kinds of paintings," Matisse went on. "First there is the kind that introduces something new. Such paintings begin by being worthless but eventually they ascend the heights of value. Then there are those which are accepted at the outset because they offer nothing new but simply flatter the public taste. They are later found to be worthless...
...story of Matisse's own career clearly made him an example of the first kind of painter. Could he think of an opposite example? "Charity commands me," said Matisse with a smile, "not to name any artists who do paintings of the second sort...