Word: relationships
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...point out a curious relationship between the two stories? Korzybski says that what's wrong with people with "Aristotelian orientations" is that they tend to build their attitudes and their lives on verbal definitions . . . His "non-Aristotelian" theory is directed toward getting people past their definitions and words, i.e., blasting a few holes in the verbal wall that stands between them and reality...
Doubt & Confusion. Bishop De Wolfe explained that his decision had been based primarily upon consideration of "the pastoral relationship." Wrote he: "I believe the Rev. William Howard Melish, assistant minister, to have been . . . most mistaken in what he believes to be the pastoral application of his ministry. He has allowed himself ... to become involved with 'outside activities' of such a nature and to such an extent as to incite doubt and confusion in the church as to whether he is indeed living up to his ordination vows as a priest in this church...
Letter & Spirit. April 4 was the date named by the bishop for the Melishes' "pastoral relationship" to "cease." But father & son made no move to pack up their vestments. Instead, Rector Melish announced that he denied the legality of the bishop's action - a course that may well end up in the civil courts. Said...
There is some pathos in the stffry of a widowed concert singer (Jeanette MacDonald) who sees her only son hit and killed by a truck, but the sentiment sours when the scripters make Jeanette a self-centered, self-pitying woman. There is also some promise in the relationship between the singer and an orphan boy (Jarman) whom she meets in the Carolina Mountains. But the association never quite comes off. For one thing, young Jarman is uncomfortably overgrown and incurably quaint, and he is pictured as a ninny. Perhaps the only character to live up to expectations is the general...
...subject of Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, Sherwood said that the late President was "the most complex character" he had even known or read about. The playwright described Roosevelt's relationship to Stalin as a close, personal one upon which the President pinned many of his hopes. It is regrettable that our relations with Russia never achieved a firmer basis, Sherwood concluded...