Word: onwards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Another tuition increase, another need for scholarship aid; the fortunate seniors should give generously in the name of all those who remain behind. . . Onward and upward: both tuition and charity...
...Onward. Characteristically, Nikita Khrushchev seemed innocently oblivious to the negative response to his long tirade. A patient man in high-stakes game of international Monopoly, he knew as well as anyone else that he had not lost the cold war but just a battle. But it was a decisive battle. Had he come so far, with so much panoply, with so little to offer? There would be new ploys, new attacks as his satellite echoes got into the act. But he was off to a most unimpressive start...
...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...