Word: properly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Proper Names. In Springfield, Ohio, Police Lieut. John Law announced his retirement. In Oceana, W. Va., the leading candidate for postmaster was Please Wright...
...communism. Aiming his attacks at both man-centered Marxism and capitalism, Maritain proposes a God-centered "Christian humanism." Says he: "God trains us through our disillusionments and mistakes to understand at last that we must believe only in Him and not in men, which places us in the proper position to marvel at ... all the good which [men] do in spite of themselves...
...detractors charge that John is as much of a "personality" as an artist. His champions retort that John's preoccupation with personality, his own as well as others', is perfectly natural and proper in a portrait painter. His own exuberant, self-assertive nature looms large in his work; and some of his portraits are raised above the potboiler class only by the force of his style. John's dashing brush flourishes are as distinctive as another man's handwriting. Wyndham Lewis once described him as a man of action "into whose hand the fairies stuck...
Golden Earrings. The beginning corner of the canvas of John's life was a town called Tenby, on the Welsh coast. His father was no gypsy, but a prosperous and eminently proper lawyer, who, John coolly recalls, "loved children, provided of course they were legitimate and well-behaved." His father appears frequently and ambiguously in John's autobiography. Having been in his own turn a father and a grandfather, John inclines to apologize for his own filial rebellions. His father's "pious admonitions," John confesses, "were met by indifference or even hostility. To this perverse and refractory...
Diagnosis. The trouble, Cleveland holds, is that the leading organization of management itself lacks proper management. Policies are set not by the membership but by a "self-perpetuating ... inner circle" of boards and committees. From 1933 to 1946, reports Cleveland, "125 corporations have held 63% of all directorships, 88% of executive committee membership . . . and 52% of the major executive offices. This group constitutes approximately 0.8% of current membership and has never exceeded...