Word: life
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...kept a voluminous notebook, jotted down things for which he yearned. Among them: Oregon mountain meadow preserves, Edam cheese, a drink made with rum mixed with gunpowder from a .22 short cartridge. He also filled pages with snatches of his philosophy on women and life in general...
...last week the Press Club received a polite refusal. "While I deeply appreciate the great honor conferred on me . . ." Costello wrote, "I cannot accept ... I never made a speech in my life and the very thought of it almost scares me to death. Even the idea of facing members of the press gives me the shivers, although not nearly so much now as before November last, when you loused up the election situation and the betting odds...
...academy at Poona, the Prime Minister, as a former believer in passive resistance, had pronounced it "odd" that "we who for generations have talked about . . . and practiced nonviolence should now be glorifying our Army, Navy and Air Force. Though it is odd, yet it simply reflects the oddness of life. Though life is logical, we have to face all contingencies, and unless we are prepared to face them, we will go under...
...York and other cities, speak at the universities of Chicago, California and Wisconsin, inspect farms and factories, Mount Vernon, Hyde Park, the National Gallery of Art, TVA and White Sulphur Springs. The big emphasis would be on getting him acquainted with the productive panorama of U.S. life...
Partly this is because Gandhi blessed him. Partly it has to do with a tradition of Indian life since Buddha-the imaginative appeal of a highborn Brahman, such as Nehru, giving up a life of ease to join a popular cause such as liberation from British rule. Finally, the largely illiterate masses of India, not yet beyond a feudal horizon, still look up to their ruler as a child looks to its parent...