Word: ridiculouse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Instead of a happy reunion, instead of a wave of new confidence at the appointment of Jimmy Byrnes as tsar of inflation control (see p. 18), the President's homecoming produced the ridiculous spectacle of new bitterness. It brought to the surface a fundamental conflict of temperament and methods...
But for every manpower problem that has arrived, 100 or 1,000 are on their way. The only way to glimpse the catastrophic size of the problem is to take stock of conditions in a few sample spots-conditions often individually ridiculous but in the aggregate appalling:
A heroic Christianity is what Bernanos demands, and he thinks the elements for it are ready. Just as in 1000 A.D., when out of the waste and decline of two empires, the Roman and Carlovingian, the magnificence of Chivalry arose, a new kind of men may appear in his beloved...
Later Pietro overcame his fear of death. Loss of that fear gave him an appetite for living which made any wealth beyond that of bare life ridiculous. It also gave him a complete distrust of theory and oratory. "Must I force myself to shout and sing," he asked, "if I...
Freedom from Want. "The proposal that want be abolished from this world would be pretentious, or even ridiculous, were it not for two important recent discovers: that men now possess the technical ability to produce in great abundance the necessities of daily life, a revolutionary and quite unprecedented condition on...