Word: kindness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dangerous century, there is widespread skepticism about "the steady gain of man." Most notable spokesman for this view among U.S. Protestants is Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr. In his newest book, Faith and History (Scribner: $3.50), Professor Niebuhr struggles with his own tortuous prose to present his pertinent views on what kind of progress, if any, man can hope...
...earth's new-found neighbors are not the kind to attract attention to themselves. Dr. Luyten, Java-born and Holland-educated, discovered them only by comparing photographic plates made at the Harvard College Observatory's station in South Africa in 1930 with other plates made there in 1944. So shy and retiring are the twins that their light would have to be 100 times stronger than it is to be seen by the naked...
...certain specialists, jobs will still be plentiful. Dieticians, nurses, teachers, metallurgical and ceramic engineers should have no trouble at all. Chemical and mechanical engineers will also be in fairly good demand, though some will have a better chance if they go East after graduation. Nonspecialists, however, have a different kind of problem...
Charles Norman pretty certainly knew the kind of people he has written about in this, his first, novel. At 44, and New York born-&-raised, he has produced six small volumes of poetry himself. The Well of the Past is a gently idealized version of the Manhattan '20s; yet Author Norman writes so carefully of the quiet life of David Gerald, and follows his simple and unpretentious thoughts with such detached sympathy, that the portrait ends by being impressive. This, he seems to say to the reader, was all that the Greenwich Village-Paris rebellion, in most cases, amounted...
Everyone participating--conductor, orchestra, soloists, and the Harvard and Radcliffe Glee Club--were on edge for this, the final program of Koussevitzky's 25th year with the Boston Symphony. The result was an intense, sincere performance, the kind that happens on the rare occasions when an orchestra players over its head. But no such playing would have been possible without the years spent by Koussevitzky in perfecting and refining the virtuoso orchestra which he inherited in 1923 from Pierre Monteux...