Word: skeptics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...find them more efficient, conscientious, and patient than men." This was too much for Grouser. "Why, I didn't even think they were human," he blurted out. By way of reply, Professor McNair called a Dr. Larsen, and warned by telephone of "the approach" of a first term skeptic." So Grouser was soon on his way to Baker...
Standing now at the top of his profession, in which, curiously enough, he holds no degree, William Francis Gibbs is a profound skeptic. Young Son Francis is an enthusiastic horseman, but Father Gibbs hates the sight of horseflesh. Said a member of his family: "He always suspects they're ready to bite him." In the same way he is leary of success. When a man begins to think of himself as successful, according to the Gibbsian philosophy, "he gets to thinking he is so goddam bright that it just paralyzes...
...safety, and he kept his vow. He has also kept an "older and far more unconscious vow": "In the days when I wrote my first verses I vowed that I would evermore and everywhere magnify the divine mystery and the holiness of man." For any save the most hopeless skeptic the story of Bernadette Soubirous, fully and devotedly told as it is here, is a strong recall toward "these ultimate values of our mortal lot." Her life is not merely, as Werfel says, "the greatest miracle of modern times," it is also the victorious pitting of the undefended and essential...
...race discrimination will really keep him sitting on the edge of his chair when talking to a boy who has been trying to find a job in a Cambridge defense industry, and whose ability he has learned to respect after a day of hard work together. And our skeptic might change his mind about weekends...
...Over the past decades the pressure for payments of soldiers' bonuses has been on of the most unwholesome aspects of our political scene. There is little reason for reintroducing the issue prematurely and with government support. Even a skeptic will admit that the morale of an army is not made or unmade by bonus payments...