Word: nourisher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...best they could think of was to send word around the wards and back rooms: don't give up hope. In spite of Harry Truman's firm stand against decontrol, they hoped there would be some meat to nourish voters for that journey to the polls...
This time the man in the barrel is Hero Bernard, who lives among bums and hobos in a cubicle of the "Willis Hotel" (rent: 35? a night). First he works in a cigar store where his fellow clerks nourish their starved egos by achieving the maximum of seductions at the minimum of expense. While they dream of the day when they can buy any woman they want, Bernard dreams of deathless love and literary fame. In his off hours he buries himself in the works of Dreiser, Ibsen, Keats and Sherwood Anderson, agonizingly hammers out his own youthful fiction...
...Vice," said Virgil, "is nourished and kept alive by concealment." Last week Yalta's guiltily prolonged secrecy continued to nourish distrust and disquiet among the nations...
...take his comic book or his radio away from him now because he's used to them and he might cry, but you can work for, fight for a decent, liberal educational system, for better pay for teachers so that better teachers will come to nourish the minds of the next generation. You can stop patronizing the stupidest 90% of Hollywood's products until they stop making them and are forced to use talent, intelligence and new ideas. You can demand that your radio station devote more time to adult entertainment. You can club together...
...Liberal Tradition, by William Aylott Orton (Yale University Press; $3.50), is a 317-page attempt to redefine liberalism by groping for i) its spiritual roots; 2) its historical roots; 3) the adventitious roots that nourish its current distortions and perversions. Author Orton is an Anglo-Catholic liberal. Since the religious ground on which he stands is one of the few relatively solid footholds in a shifting universe, it makes a cozy vantage point from which to scrutinize that inherently shifting political and moral position-liberalism...