Word: retainers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...remember the individual Protestant worshiper and his spiritual needs: "I had traveled 15 years only to agree that the personal religious life must come first in any Protestant plan . . . If the leaders of the World Assembly failed to challenge the individual . . . they would declare unity with their lips but retain plurality in their mission...
...with blasphemies, cursing the war they sent him to, trying to make horrible love to her, and eventually killing his father and his mother's lover. The force of this poem comes from the suggestion that a soldier foully killed in the insane violence of modern combat would retain the violence-and insanity-after death; its weakness comes of pushing this suggestion too far, implying that no human kindness or decency could survive modern warfare, and thus turning what might have been a tragic moral struggle into a necrophiliac nightmare...
...modernization north to New England. One of the issues in the fight for control of the New Haven was Palmer's intention to abandon the money-losing (over $3,000,000 last year) Old Colony branch road from Boston to Cape Cod. Whittemore hopes not only to retain the Old Colony line, but to make it pay by bringing its equipment up to the road's new standards...
...represents a client with whom he may disagree." Said the majority report: "The contract provides that there shall be no discharge except for just & sufficient cause . . . We believe membership in the Communist Party to be such a cause . . . We do not feel that we can require a newspaper to retain a reporter who no longer has value." It wasn't just a case of which-party-do-you-belong-to, added the report, for Commies surrender "a degree of the freedom of action retained by those who join political parties generally...
...seemed to make sense was the University of Iowa's President Virgil Hancher. Said he: "Somewhere along the pathway of progress the art of contemplation has been lost. The Society of Friends, certain Roman Catholics, and an occasional mystic or band of mystics have preserved the art. They retain anchorage in a sea of ceaseless motion, of disquiet and drifting. You can make it a rule of life to withdraw each day into quiet and contemplation. You have but one life, and a short one, at your disposal. Only in leisure can you savor...