Word: mote
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Aside from his purely literary abilities, Sheed's work demonstrates the combined virtues of classical education and traditional liberalism. Discredited in politics and literature, G.K. Chesterton may inhabit mote-lined library shelves, but Sheed remembers the man's wiser aphorisms and brings them to bear on current culture. Whittaker Chambers may have been an abhorrent character, but he wasn't totally manic, and Sheed notes that his trial testimonies stand up pretty well years later. As artistic and social fads come and go, Sheed will probably remain, looking at them slightly askance, and somewhere finding a transcendent meaning...
...activity stopping at 11 a.m. for a universal moment of solemn silence in recollection of the prodigious sacrifice in resolution that war might forever cease as an instrument of national policy. Those who march on Washington November 15 will be hearing the mulled drums of that other and perhaps mote humane America which had fixed upon Armistice Day not only as an annual tribute to those who had died in the War against the Central Powers but also as an annual reminder of our solemn pledge to do everything possible as a nation to prevent recourse to war. Repentance...