Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Walter Judd cried: "We are sitting here doing nothing and letting the world go to hell." But most Congressmen, sobered by the testimony, were no longer eager to cast a vote for the revision plan. Marshall and Austin, though deploring the tactics, were far from decrying the spirit. They asked for a resolution supporting the U.S.'s patient efforts to shore up the structure of U.N. "from within" through the Little Assembly, and restriction of the veto in peaceful settlements...
Tangible evidence of the same Deacon spirit that is revealed in dining hall sings and courtyard beer parties, the Testament, it seems, lacks only one thing. But one of the editors has hope for the future. "As soon as Housemaster Hammond lets us keep sheep in the courtyard," he predicts, "we will publish the Testament on parchment...
Faye Emerson Roosevelt made her first bow on Broadway after seven years in Hollywood, caught the critical eyes focused on Molnar's The Play's the Thing. The Times's Brooks Atkinson noted her "high spirit and versatility"; the Herald Tribune's Howard Barnes found her "attractive and promising"; the Daily News's John Chapman, "entirely acceptable"; PM's Louis Kronenberger, "Fetching to look at... pleasant to listen to." Mother-in-Law Eleanor Roosevelt, back from London just in time to watch from the second row, told Columnist Earl Wilson that Faye looked real...
...toward union must be taken by the Protestant communions . . . Let each communion in its own way discuss the fundamental question: Is union so desirable that we are resolved to win it? If the answer is affirmative, then bodies can appoint . . . representatives . . . qualified, above all, by a life of Christian spirit...
...spare time Ed Queeny likes to hunt and fish and write books. He has written on ducks and salmon fishing and, most important, on the free-enterprise system that he feels Monsanto epitomizes. His Spirit of Enterprise (Scribner; $2) was a vigorous, readable businessman's counterattack on state planning...