Word: musts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your Aug. 22 article on José Ortega y Gasset's description of the evolution of art was read with interest. [But] I am afraid you adopt too much of a defeatist attitude in your last sentence: "It looked as if modern art must be the end of the line...
...argument was that ... no insect which passes through the larva, nymph and imago cycle of life has ever . . . been able to pass on any experience to its progeny. All that such insects know is known absolutely perfectly by an instinct which must be the result of creation...
...that the friend's desperate situation wasn't exactly, or entirely, his own fault-and some annoyance. Dwight Eisenhower, in a casual press-conference remark at a family reunion in St. Louis last week, caught some of that mood. Said he: "Their situation is terrible and they must have sympathy, but we must realize that we are not a bottomless...
...unlike the children, they are not innocent; their tactics are those of wartime; they are warlike criminals. They are resolved to get power no matter by what means, and I am just as resolved to check them. In Japan today, the general tendency is that a person must be kicked front behind before he moves forward. Since I move forward without any pushing, I am accused of going...
...right down to it, the thing that broke up the Gregory marriage was the death of F.D.R. John Gregory, for ten years a devoted New Deal bureaucrat, felt "as if this death were a sword that he must take to his bosom, slowly, inch by inch." John's neglected wife Ellen suffered no such heroic tortures. A rich woman who had married John when he was a poor college instructor, she called Roosevelt "That Man." Her grief was of another kind. The Gregorys' son Timmy had been killed in the war and for that tragedy she split...