Word: nobler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Prize (value: about $25,000 taxfree) for 1953-"the highest honor," he called it, "that can be conferred on any person in these times." New York City-born Author Fast, 41 (Citizen Tom Paine, Freedom Road), commended himself to the Kremlin by his judgments on the Communist Party ("No nobler, no finer product of man's existence") and the mid-century U.S. ("Only one virtue remains-betrayal-and the only measure of human worth is the measure of a pimp"). Beyond these words his deeds included a three months jail sentence in 1950 for contempt of Congress...
...came to America with his parents at the age of 1 i½, Cryptanalyst Friedman developed an early interest in ciphers. Like many another schoolboy, he caught the bug by reading Edgar Allan Poe's The Gold Bug. But he put his new-found knowledge to no nobler use than that of exchanging cryptic love notes with a winsome classmate. After trying his hand in an ironworks after graduation from high school, young Friedman at last decided to work his way through agricultural college and become a farmer. Graduating close to the top of his class at Cornell...
...Cigarette Problem. The poverty with which the book deals is more comic than tragic. Hero Gordon Comstock is bone-poor, not because he is genuinely down-and-out, but because a pinkish bee in his bonnet tells him that it is nobler to half-starve than surrender to what he calls "the money-code." A poet of sorts (he has published a slim volume entitled Mice), Gordon has not got much farther because he is usually too cold and hungry even to hold a pencil. Gordon's conscience allows him to earn about ten dollars a week as salesman...
...amateur tennis is not always pure, that players get paid on the side and serve as social pets for rich backers. "People respect you more when you make your own way," Kramer tells the youngsters. "More important, you respect yourself more." Jack demolishes the argument that there is something nobler or more socially acceptable about being an amateur. "That's a lot of bunk." He tells tennis amateurs bluntly: "When you're finished as an amateur, you're really finished. So get it while...
...English that it was "the Norman custom to stand fast." This mutedly rationalist ending of an otherwise excellent book will fail to satisfy many readers. It shows, once again, what a superb and poetically accurate work is T. S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral, with its far nobler picture of a man who had put aside ambition-even spiritual ambition-and found a faith so strong that he could joyfully accept death as its price: I have had a tremor of bliss, a wink of heaven, a whisper, And I would no longer be denied; all things Proceed...