Word: merely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard. There has been, in fact, a great strategic change in the world during the past year. That precious intangible, the initiative, is becoming ours. Our policy, not limited to mere reaction against crises provoked by others, is free to develop along lines of our choice...
...bishop's point, offers a remedy equally possible for Buddhists and freethinkers. His solution to the high toll of modern stress: leisure. Said he: "If we cannot relieve stress, we must break it somewhere in the chain . . . Only leisure can rehabilitate the overstressed mechanism of the mind . . ." But mere idleness is not the answer. The kind of leisure men need in a machine-age civilization is rather some spare-time task or occupation "that makes some call on their intelligence and restores their self-respect, transforming them once more from cogs in a machine to men among...
Dean Erwin N. Griswold of the Law School said yesterday that the proposed Bricker amendment to the Constitution is "unnecessary and would do far mere harm than good...
...three expatriates on show, Sargent rose highest in his lifetime and fell farthest afterwards. Some of his paintings at Chicago, such as the vibrant portrait of Mile. Suzanne Poirson and the elegantly sexy Egyptian Girl (see spread), will surprise those who have come to regard him as a mere Cecil Beaton of the paintbrush. He had more dash than genius, yet in his best moments the portly, full-bearded conservative stood among the immortals...
...Horace, pursuing high aims at high altitudes, bigamy is a mere narrow-minded epithet, and the feelings of his Wilmington wife (Martha Scott), on hearing the Philadelphia story, are to be placated by friendly words and a few flowers. Necessarily, there are bourgeois complications. Yet, as played with gusto by Burgess Meredith, Mr. Pennypacker is no less a devoted family man for having one family too many, and no less a man of principle for having principles all his own. The whole play is geared to the level of farce; but though the level is sustained, the leverage falters...