Word: looks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Christians would join the Wise Men we must close our eyes to all that glitters before the world and look rather on the despised and foolish things, help the poor, comfort the despised and aid the neighbor in his need. Do not boast that you have built churches and endowed masses. God will say: 'What to me are your churches and masses? . . . Who told you to build churches? I have set before you spiritual temples...
...their liking "in the plain living, the simple amusements, the rigid and rigorous disciplines" that their school started with. But many a 19th Century student remembered his campus days as the time of his life. Naturalist John Muir, leaving Madison in 1863, had paused on a high hill to look back "with streaming eyes" at the Wisconsin campus "where I had spent so many hungry and happy and hopeful days...
...week, in a Quonset-hut reading room on the lower campus of the University of Wisconsin, every seat was taken. It was exam week. Girls in neat sweaters & skirts (the wartime sloppy-joe style was out), men in open shirts and dungarees were giving the books a last hard look...
...When I visit the museum of fine arts and look at the pictures, and when I happen to admire them, I don't first assure myself that the painter was a good man . . . [But] is it possible that the visible presence of the artist makes a relevant difference? For in applauding his performance we are applauding the whole man there before us-the man with his entire past peering through his present. . . I admit that I keep away from performances by [Nazi] collaborators; I don't want to go . . . [but] the point is that while my feelings point...
...Stignani is a gay little woman who admits to being "only as old as I look" (early fortyish). The night after her concert last week, she went to dinner with Arturo Toscanini, who had listened in frowning silence to her voice when she was 20, then next day sent her a contract to sing at Milan's La Scala. At dinner, says Ebe, "Maestro was in a reminiscing mood, but he only covered the period 1898 to 1913-not my time...