Word: manly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Half-Century Man (Cont...
...shocked and dismayed when I read your Letters column and saw Harry Truman suggested for Man of the Half-Century [TIME...
...unpopular" Church dogmas in order to deceive people into believing that the Church upholds American principles (and also denies the dogma). When the Knights of Columbus say that it is an "erroneous idea" to believe non-Catholic marriages are invalid, they are knocking over a straw man. The Church teaches (horror of horrors) that a Catholic cannot be married in the eyes of the Church except before a priest. Mr. Blanshard makes this delicate and purely religious matter clear only by implication in the footnotes which are grouped, I think unfortunately, at the end of the book. The rhetorical implication...
...fell into conversation the other day with a sun-burnt character who was dressed all in grey. I won't bother to go into all the details, but I easily recognized him as what Holiday Magazine and other publications have called "the Harvard man." Since I also attend Harvard, and plan to do so for at least another year, I listened with considerable interest to what he had to say. It was to be frank, quite unintelligible...
...feel that although the authorities cannot be accused of "overemphasizing" sports, there is a regrettable overemphasis on the subject in the minds of people like "the Harvard man" of whom I spoke earlier. Moreover, there is a distressing number of these "Harvard men," although many of them cannot be easily identified as such. Still, all of them, whether attired in grey or not, assume a cleancut, fanatic, and dangerously belligerent attitude when discussing sports...