Word: nobler
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Sensing his own frailty, each man yearns for someone stronger or nobler or more certain in whom to believe. He embraces God, or he elevates mortals to the status of heroes, or he does both. The death of World War II hero Audie Murphy (see page 27) was a melancholy reminder that society imposes an impossible burden on those few from whom it expects so much. This is especially true of the battle hero, whose impulsiveness, perhaps sheer recklessness, and submersion of self can emerge as fatal faults in the day-by-day pursuit of peacetime success. And the hero...
...TIME coverage of the advances made in the science of heredity and genetic control [April 19] was great. But there is one fiction that is always repeated: that one of the nobler objectives is the creation of more Newtons and Mozarts. A nation the size of ours must contain thousands of natural Newtons, Mozarts, Shakespeares and Van Goghs. Why aren't they recognized...
...thought that angels are dead is a nagging one. It is unsatisfactory, and the root of the dissatisfaction goes back to an early angelologist, the so-called Pseudo-Dionysius, who warned in the 6th century that "in dwelling upon the nobler images it is probable that we might fall into the error of supposing that the Celestial Intelligences are some kind of golden beings, or shining men flashing like lightning...
Mishima was an impassioned romantic whose real despair at his country's course commingled like sacrificial blood with his own deep need to return to an earlier and, in his view, much nobler Japan. Many critics in Japan felt that he passed the peak of his career as a writer-Sun and Steel, an autobiographical and philosophical book published this year, was not very favorably received-and that he feared reaching old age in obscurity. Said Critic Yamamoto: "He was already 45. After 50, he couldn't have achieved such beauty in his manner of death...
...cannot say that Antony has convincingly regained his nobler self since the kiss recalls only more unconsidered love. The crucial dramatic connection between love and the honor of the gods has not yet been made. Antony's violent swervings between shame, rancor, and pleasure are the result of his pertinacious misconception that he can have both splendid reputation and unbounded love. The recovery of his nobler self must await his recognition of personal error. Lepidus says that his faults...