Word: roughness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years, in the midst of his other work, Knox labored lovingly on a history of Christian sectarianism, "mastering my authorities in trains, or over solitary meals, taking notes on rough pieces of paper and losing them." He titled the work Enthusiasm, and described the typical "enthusiastic" movement as beginning with "an elite of Christian men and (more importantly) women" trying to live closer to the Holy Spirit than their neigh- bors. "More and more, by a kind of fatality, you see them draw apart from their coreligionists, a hive ready to swarm. There is provocation on both sides . . . Then, while...
...given her by New York's Mayor Wagner at the Waldorf, Althea managed to make a speech. "God grant that I wear this crown I have won with dignity," she said. "I just can't describe the joy in my heart." But she was also learning the rough side of being on top. "No matter what accomplishments you make," she says, "somebody helps you. People saw me going up there, and now they want to ride on the wagon. Whenever I hear anyone call me 'Champ,' I think there's something behind...
First Touch of Fame. The Kid from Harlem gave the Eatons a rough time. She hung out in a poolroom. Her table manners were so bad that the Eatons made her eat in the kitchen ("She was underfed, and it took almost a year to fill her up properly"). At first, 19-year-old Althea could not even qualify for the freshman class in high school. But she worked sternly, and she finished among the top ten in the graduating class. Four or five times a week, Dr. Eaton practiced tennis with her. "I tried to show Althea...
Architecturally speaking. Congress has been giving the U.S. Air Force a rough ride. While Congressmen want the Air Force to have the very latest thing in airplanes and missiles, they do not feel quite the same way about chapels. Congressmen marshaled some Congress-like reasons two years ago to turn down plans for the Air Force Academy chapel at Colorado Springs (TIME, July 18, 1955 et seq.). So angry were their cries against the glass, steel and aluminum project that the Air Force decided to rub it all out and start over again. Last week the House debated...
...tales. Her characters are primitive and romantic, as they probably were in life, and she has a surprising quality of humor. One of her best stories, I Woke Up Wicked, is the tale of an unheroic cowboy who inadvertently becomes a member of a gang of badmen called the Rough String. Up to the last line, "I went home to Pennsylvania and took up plowing," she sustains perfectly the self-derisory note of the campfire raconteur. Her shorter stories are her best, and in tales of Indian, settler, miner and badman, she subtly suggests the tragedy of collision between aborigine...