Word: lesson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fight for its 13-year-old policy against a community brought to the brink of explosion by reports of a crime wave among Negroes. Paul Block's worldly, well-edited Blade not only stood by its rule but also last week gave Toledoans of equal good will a lesson that few will soon forget...
...Lesson of Tolerance. Author William James Durant (who was raised a Roman Catholic, now describes himself as a humanist) is a tolerant man who enjoys riding above the battle. With gently malicious humor, he quotes Catholic historians when he has something anti-Catholic to say, Protestant historians when he is anti-Protestant. To Durant, the men who tried to heal the wounds of Christendom, rather than the zealots on either side, are the "good" men of the day; but he believes that "our sympathy can go to all the combatants." Concludes Durant: "A religion is at its best when...
...Lesson. In London, Art Student William Green. 23, explained how he makes the paintings which he sells for as much as $280 each: place a large, fresh white canvas on the floor, pour paint and printer's ink on the canvas, jump up and down on the paint, dance and skip over the surface, ride over the canvas on a bicycle, soak the canvas in paraffin, shovel sand on the painting to give it "added texture...
...coming out against leadership of literature and art by party and state." Too many of those who denounced loyal artists of Stalinist times as "varnishers" had since "scavenged in garbage pails and passed this off as life." He was all for "freedom of creative work," Khrushchev protested, despite the "lesson of Hungary, where the counterrevolution used some of these writers for its filthy aims and reminds us to what this can lead." (Original reports of the speech quote Khrushchev as saying that the Hungarians ought to have shot a few writers, and that if a like situation arose in Moscow...
...past with flashbacks so deft as to be intravenous. There is Lawyer Arthur Winner Sr., a dispassionate Victorian man of reason, his son's model and hero. An agnostic, he has been cut down in the fullness of life by cancer, and young Arthur learns his first sobering lesson-"How dies the wise man ... as the fool." With life's occasional flair for overemphasis, the lesson is repeated when Arthur's first wife, Hope, dies from the aftereffects of childbirth. Something else has died first-the youthful illusion that they had fallen in love with each other...