Word: maelstrom
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Wolfson has risen to scholarly preeminence because his work, unlike his maelstrom-like study, is pervaded by an almost classic sense of detail and style. His prose is limpid. His manuscripts often have to wait years of careful research before he submits them to print. His research methods, although seemingly careless, have the same painstaking quality. After be graduated from Harvard in 1911, Wolfson went on a Sheldon Fellowship to Europe theoretically for pleasurable travel. He traveled alright, but from one library to another, Paris, Parma, Rome, and Cambridge, for a year and a half, reading copiously and taking detailed...
From one of Hong Kong's 670,000 anti-Communist refugees from Red China . . . congratulations on your story. You are one of the few American publications still able to retain an independence of opinion about Free China amid the maelstrom of lies. It seems that many-including Americans-are convinced that we Chinese want Mao Tse-tung and not Chiang Kaishek. As long as Chiang and Formosa exist, the free and enslaved Chinese will live and fight on in hope...
Christmas in Chicago used to include one famed celebration. Among as many as 800 children, ecstatic before a mountain of toys and candy-crammed paper bags, workers of the Catholic Youth Organization would labor happily to distribute presents and keep order. And in the middle of the maelstrom would move the founder and father of C.Y.O., The Most Rev. Bernard J. Sheil-a firm-faced Friar Tuck kneeling nimbly beside the toddlers, leading other children by the hand, talking to twelve-year-olds with the dignity becoming their years. To Bishop Sheil, the C.Y.O. Christmas Party was a symbol...
...York city politics is a roughhouse game. Until they die and often after, bad things are said about all politicians. It is almost enough that in this maelstrom, Robert F. Wagner has accomplished as much as he has. For his record, his program and his person, compared with the others or judged absolutely, we endorse Robert F. Wagner for the mayoralty of New York...
...launches to the correspondents of the major papers, but the W.R.A. provided one barge to accommodate all the judges, 20 sportswriters, four newsreel and over 20 still cameras, and the TV camera. With one Navy lieutenant who knew next to nothing about crew races supervising, the barge was a maelstrom...