Word: smile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hardly a diversion for his troops. To his quest for a program replacement, the Captain applies his own special talents of adroit bungling and naivete. He is essentially a master of the faux pas, breeching social etiquette regularly and filling in the gaps with comic dignity and a pained smile...
...chair at the corner table is never empty anymore. And as Bentley sits there, breakfast, lunch, and dinner, he pauses every now and then between bites to think of that evening at Harkness Common. For a moment, a smile flits across his face as he savours the memory. But then, with an angry jab at a string bean, Bentley remembers the dollar...
...sipped milk and flipped the pages of a newspaper, to deep interest, as he furiously scribbled notes on 3-by-5 index cards. At his side sat Roy Cohn, now whispering, now scowling, now grimacing and turning up the whites of his eyes, now managing a pained smile. On McCarthy's other side was Frank Carr, his pudgy face impassive, the silent man of the hearings...
...keeps the noise within the House. Discounting the idea that Leverett suffers the fate of a catch-all, he can name four varsity captains from his House this year. He can also point out that three members of his house staff recently won Guggenheim fellowships, saying with a proud smile, "My staff is superb." Actually, his own modesty--which keeps him from talking about aids he personally has given to needy students--seems to have guided house publicity. "We don't blow horns," he says. "May-be that's what we should...
Compromise with Mediocrity. One of the two non-Catholic writers included in the symposium is Jewish Author Will Herberg, who finds U.S. Catholicism today "at its highest point of prestige and spiritual power." But Herberg regrets "a tendency in Catholicism to smile indulgently upon men and pat them on the back, as it were. Catholicism thus comes forward as the friend of man, whereas Protestantism, with its unrelenting emphasis on judgment, sometimes appears as his enemy." Catholics' "spiritual geniality," writes Herberg, often combines with secularism to betray "Catholics into too easy an acquiescence in the banalities, timidities and mediocrities...