Word: learnedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"God & Me." Jamaicans had long since learned to expect such antics from their gaunt, cyclonic Communications Minister. Once a Manhattan waiter, he returned to his native island to win fortune as a moneylender and fame as the rabble-rousing leader of dock-wallopers and cane-choppers.
His followers learned to obey him unquestioningly in the bloody hunger riots of 1938, which he organized with his Oxford-educated cousin, brilliant, socialist Barrister Norman Washington Manley, K.C. At rallies, Busta had only to raise his hand to get either wild cheering or deadly silence. "If there is anyone...
Pianist Gieseking didn't know far enough, as he soon found out. First, he learned that he was only on parole to his manager. Then, while he was resting in his Manhattan hotel room four hours before concert time, the phone rang. He would have to go to the...
Last week, hundreds of U.S. and Canadian readers were following the intellectual problem of fictional Arthur Tyndall; as he learned more about Toronto University, they learned too. Warden Tyndall was the hero of a new novel by a front-ranking Canadian novelist and short-story writer, 45-year-old Morley...
During all those years, Headmaster Lucas didn't change much. Though he became a canon of his cathedral and assistant to the Bishop of Washington, he never learned to be formal. If he heard that some teacher's wife had suddenly been taken ill, he would still rush...