Word: nessing
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...book falls into cute ness in at least two places, for one of which Mrs. Clarke feels required to apologize. The first is the title in which the author has taken the famous old poem concerning Boston "Where the Lowells speak only to Cabots, and the Cabots speak only to God," and substituted Loyolas for Lowells "with more than unsatisfactory results." The second occurs in the last paragraph of the book. It depicts the students and Father Feeney studying "The Doctors, Popes, and Saints of the Church with a longing for the day when a newsboy will be heard running...
Although the U.S. is the world's great, example of a free enterprise economy that works, Americans are inclined to take this for granted. They are also inclined to balk at production figures and the "dull" statistics of busi ness. In today's world those figures are important. Recently, a TIME editor encountered an Austrian official who was flabbergasted by the quantities of cars and television sets owned by U.S. workers. The official explained : "Until I came here I never believed it, even though I had read it. The Russians said all those figures were just propaganda...
...that which prevailed in wartime. "There is a general complacency in the public mind," Seitz says, "which arises from the fact that life in our land is exceedingly pleasant. It may prove necessary to contract our standard of living if we undertake military preparedness with anything like the serious ness that is prevalent in Russia." Dr. Seitz hopes that the public and his colleagues may both awake in time. American public opinion is due for an "abrupt change some time in the near future if the present crisis continues. Changes of this type have been instituted by disasters such...
...wardroom coffee, Sherman read economics and world politics. He poured out scholarly articles for Navy publications, studded them with quotations from Napoleon, Lee and Moltke, ranged in subject from critiques on the 1918 air war in Palestine to suggestions for carrier design. Many of his contemporaries found his singleminded-ness irritating. But his superiors were delighted with a staff officer they could lean on; subordinates liked a man who always knew just what he wanted...
...Campidoglio. But there was noth ing conventionally heroic about Marini's riders ; they were scared, not proud. They looked, indeed, very much like lonely, out size babies mounted bareback on broad, unbridled Mongolian ponies - going no where. Marini had carved them with mingled delicacy and deliberate awkward ness, sacrificing handsomeness to pathos...