Word: kinds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first selection presented yesterday was from George Bernard Shaw's "Androcles and the Lion." Sherman C. Hawkins '51 took the title part of a kind-hearted Christian of Roman times who removes a thorn from the foot of a lion. Phyllis Courtney of Boston University played his wife, and Richard B. England '53, was the lion...
...blind and soft-bodied, shun light, and always conceal themselves in the earth, wood, or any other of the more than 150 different objects (ranging from toy blocks to Egyptian mummies) in which they have been discovered. Termites are fond of wood because their digestive tracts harbor a specific kind of protozoa which enables them to digest cellulose...
...with a spoon. It did, however, look like something that people would buy in a Christmas card. Conway's Mother and Child lacked even that advantage; it was an all-but-indecipherable tangle of syrupy colors and tricky, scratch-and-patch textures without visible sentiment of any kind. Conway, who golfs about as well (in the high 70s) as he paints, had clearly taken great pains to scramble his prizewinner. Painting, he says, is like golfing: "Hitting the ball for miles and miles to try to get it into that little hole...
...Void. The week-long meeting, the first of its kind, was called jointly by the World Council of Churches and the International Missionary Council, to discuss the position of the Protestant churches in Southern and Eastern Asia. In addition to General Secretary W. A. Visser 't Hooft of the World Council and the International Missionary Council's Chairman John A. Mackay, the meeting included five bishops (from the Philippines, India and Japan), and delegates from almost every country in Asia...
...Morison's massive history of the Navy in World War II. What war at sea meant for the Germans was compactly set down in Anthony Martienssen's Hitler and His Admirals, written from captured Nazi records. One book seemed certain to become a minor classic of its kind: British Captain Russell Grenfell's The Bismarck Episode, a terse description of the pursuit and destruction of the mighty German battleship in the greatest sea hunt in naval history. Of the books of personal war experiences, two were outstanding: Norwegian Odd Nansen's From...