Word: sheean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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LEAD, KINDLY LIGHT (374 pp.)-Vincent Sheean-Random House...
...Vincent Sheean, veteran foreign correspondent, sat in Vermont in the summer of 1947 and pored over Marx, Freud and Einstein with the earnestness of a junior getting up a term paper. His purpose, says Sheean, was to arrive at a formula that would explain away the appearance of God or destiny that had forced itself on his attention in human affairs. After "very bitter suffering," he arrived at this: "The concatenation of the circumstances sometimes, or even quite often, becomes snarled in a way which produces indications of pattern in the incidence of the occurrences...
...readers of Sheean's previous works of self-revelation (Personal History, Not Peace But a Sword, etc.), such metaphysical posturing will seem familiar. No reporter was ever less contented with bare facts or more portentously absorbed in getting at the groundswell-meaning of things for himself than "Jimmy" Sheean. His 1947 "formula" did not satisfy him long. Lead, Kindly Light is the story of a new conviction that came to take its place: the conviction of an immanent and transcendent God who cannot be explained away. The man who gave him his conviction: India's late great Mahatma...
...Gift of God. During the summer and fall of 1947 a sort of premonition of Gandhi's martyrdom had oppressed Sheean; he spoke of it to friends and editors and finally persuaded Editor Ted Patrick of Holiday to send him to India. In New Delhi, he hung around with other American reporters during the days of Gandhi's last fast, then went...
...which the profession has in the fellowships. Publishers like Arthur Sulzberger, Joseph Pulitzer, Mrs. Helen Reid, Marshall Field, John and Gardner Cowles have all come to Cambridge. John Dos Passos, Bernard DeVoto, and Lewis Mumford have represented authors; working correspondents like William Shirer, John Gunther, Arthur Krock, and Vincent Sheean keep the vacationing newsmen up to date...