Word: passionlessness
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...well-to-do Boston upbringing, his "carryon" prep-school days at St. Swithin's; Harvard and culture; World War I and the Argonne; Manhattan and the advertising business; the girl he loved (Hedy Lamarr); his easy, fateful slide into his late father's (Charles Coburn) sinecure; his passionless marriage to his mother's choice (Ruth Hussey); his slightly bewildered, slightly querulous, slightly pathetic acceptance of his fate: a cushioned middle age, the deadly divinity of trivial things...
...alone like a Greenlander in my kayak, solitary upon the great sea of life," explained Kierkegaard. He cultivated a melancholy "inwardness," saw Christianity everywhere as passionless, sterile, soft. He discerned three stages of experience: 1) esthetic, 2) ethical, 3) religious. Progress through them comes only with inward struggle, firm decision. Essence of Christian religiousness, to him, is suffering. So real Christians...
...passionless eddies...
...whimsical way, Margaret Fishback backs this thesis, and Safe Conduct is her try at etiquette suited to the times. By profession, writer of institutional advertising for Macy's department store, light-verse writer on the side, she is liveliest in razzing those dexterous dopes who figure with such passionless gallantry in the etiquette books of Emily Post and Margery Wilson. On the technical side, she dictates only a bare minimum of ritual. She believes that etiquette should spring from a kind heart; her Golden Rule is "use the head and heart, and let the boiled shirts fall where they...
Profound and passionless, the New York Times last week looked out on the seething U. S. political scene, weighed, balanced, pondered, reviewed through two long editorial columns, ended by offering its readers "A Reasoned Choice." The choice: Roosevelt. The reasons: Nominee Landon offers little but a second-hand New Deal, blighted by his Party's traditional isolationism. Nominee Roosevelt, a keen judge of public opinion, will make his second Administration more conservative than his first. Commanding the confidence of the distressed masses, he will "provide insurance against radicalism of the sort which the United States has most to fear...