Word: passional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Clark Clifford, who has a passion for orderliness and quiet, solved that problem. Too many differences of opinion made it difficult for the boss to make up his mind. He got Mr. Truman's ear. The President began referring Cabinet members to Clifford, and between Cabinet meetings Clifford screened out what he thought the President should not hear. Cabinet members were grateful for this avenue of escape from Steelman's "coordinating." Clifford also set himself up as a barrier between the President and the professional politicians. They were not pleased...
...part of every healthy diet, everyone needs a certain amount of trash. . . . The comic books, however . . . [are] the lowest, most despicable, most harmful and unethical form of trash. . . As a people we must grow up. . . . We must put behind us that fear of the best and that passion for the mediocre which most Americans cultivate. Comics are the marijuana of the nursery . . . the bane of the bassinet...
Such is the content of Son of the Moon. It is a novel of some passion and excitement, and the slow accumulation of brief scenes, following the pattern of Passage to India, is very nearly incompatible with such passion. Here & there the novel has a kind of Oriental power of hallucination: experiences blend and retreat; characters dissolve; a spell is cast by the very remoteness of the happenings so precisely described. At such moments the novel seems a blend of several books, about an India that seems partly familiar and partly a new world of still formless action...
Niebuhr's overarching theme is the paradox of faith-in St. Paul's words: "The substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." But Christian faith is a paradox which is the sum of paradoxes. Its passion mounts, like a surge of music, insubstantial and sustaining, between two great cries of the spirit-the paradoxic sadness of "Lord, I believe; help Thou mine unbelief," and the paradoxic triumph of Tertullian's "Credo quia impossibile" (I believe because it is impossible...
...ailing little priest prepared for his speech as usual, by spending four or five hours in concentrated prayer. This time, he fainted as he knelt in prayer, and had to be carried to the rostrum. There his strength returned and the words poured from him with such power and passion that many of his hearers wept...