Word: objects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ghormley went to Pearl Harbor, as commandant of the Hawaiian Sea Frontier. There Nimitz gave him, and all his other subordinates, a daily object lesson in how to keep fit. By then Nimitz had moved his headquarters to a steel & concrete building, supposedly bombproof, overlooking the yard. Each morning he walked a mile or so before breakfast; each afternoon he played tennis (beating many a man much younger), or walked up & down Aiea Mountain, or hiked seven miles to a beach for a three-mile swim. The only man who could outwalk his chief was Spruance, chief of staff...
...Portrait) which throws most light on Joyce's artistic origins deals with epiphanies. "By an epiphany [Stephen] meant a sudden spiritual manifestation, whether in the vulgarity of speech or of gesture or in a memorable phase of the mind itself. . . ." When one perceives the epiphany of an object, "its soul, its whatness leaps out to [one] from the vestment of its appearance . . . [becoming] that thing which it is. . . ." Stephen felt that it is the artist's duty to record epiphanies...
...Soviet view prevailed, it would be Russia's second big attempt to form a new labor international. The Red International of Labor Unions (Profintern) was quietly quashed seven years ago, never having made headway towards its object, to capture the conservative trade unions of all countries...
...foot: the Jackson Park Hospital refused to admit a patient of an A.M.A. doctor who had been a member of the staff for 17 years. The patient, one Toyoko Murayama, though born in the U.S., was of Japanese blood. Explained Superintendent Lucius W. Hilton: "Some of our patients might object to such close bed contact to a Japanese. . . . This is a private hospital and we have absolute power over who we take...
Anne Hutchinson, religious enthusiast who was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1638 for feeling good (called Antinomianism by Puritan divines), was the object of a bill introduced in the Massachusetts State Legislature. Object: to revoke her banishment and allow her to "return" to ban-bound Boston, where she is the only woman ever honored by a statue...