Word: onwardness
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...child learns only part of the story, and unconnected facts have "a pitiably short half-life in memory." Indeed, the only facts worth knowing are those that reconstruct details when needed, e.g., basic scientific formulas. So too, the child must be given the kind of facts that lure him onward. It is one thing to show him a black dot on the map called Chicago. It is altogether different to teach him the basics of social and economic geography-and then give him a map with physical features but no place names. He may locate Chicago at the junction...
...modernity. In each he finds a virtue and the defect of that virtue. By audacity, Father Weigel points out, he does not mean "a bullying spirit, much less rudeness." It consists rather of "a naive and energetic thrust forward from an idea sincerely conceived. From Luther's day onward, simplicity of soul and freedom of the spirit were always characteristic of the churches of the Reform." Liberal or fundamentalist, the Protestant derives an "enthusiastic assuredness" from his "unconcern for tradition." The virtue of this attitude is the tolerance of diversity. But this tolerance is paradoxical. The Protestant "is tolerant...
Verbal Mobiles. Says Sahl mockingly: "I'm the intellectual voice of the era-which is a good measure of the era." It may well be. Bright and nervous, frenetic, full of quick smiles and dark moods, shouting "Onward, onward" between laughs, performing in a cashmere sweater, always tieless, he manages to suggest barbecue pits on the brink of doom...
...playing of The Star-Spangled Banner, Lenny Bernstein would come on-camera to explain it. Introducing "Mom" Walker, chief telephone operator at convention headquarters, Sahl said: "They have good exchanges for a convention-like RUthlessness, BLitz, AVarice and MAchine." Deadline for Treason. Teeth flashing, head characteristically bobbing, muttering "Onward! Onward!" between jokes, Sahl always managed to seem surprised when people laughed. "I'm for capital punishment," he declared bitingly. "You've got to execute people-how else are they going to learn?" The line rivaled his best on birth control: "I says to my girl...
...correct Frenchmen in cutaways. Then, standing on a carpet that had originally been woven for Napoleon's Josephine, he plunged into a round of handshakes in his now familiar manner-a quick look down for the hand, a look up for the owner, a short shake, and then onward. Behind him came friendly, roly-poly Mme. Nina Petrovna Khrushchev in black astrakhan coat and pillbox hat, her arms full of orchids. The rest of the family trooped in afterward-Daughters Julia, Rada and Elena, Son Sergei and Son-in-Law Alexei Adzhubei, editor of Izvestia. It was the first...