Word: statesman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wagner as an uninterrupted complex of impotence. An exasperating procession of wheelbarrows, heavy with the earth of reality, struggling up toward the inaccessible heaven of the ecstasy of love, at the summit of which there is only a precipice-love in death and death in love . . ." Only the New Statesman and Nation had the wit to smile at such Daliance and say the sanest thing heard in the hubbub: "How odd that people should have taken Mad Tristan ... so seriously...
...take over the mountain resort of Aspen, Colo, for a three-week bicentennial festival. They hired the Minneapolis Symphony to play, and assembled a distinguished roster of speakers, including Poet Stephen Spender, Novelist Ludwig Lewisohn, Playwright Thornton Wilder, Alsatian Philosopher-Missionary Albert Schweitzer, and Spain's Philosopher-Teacher-Statesman José Ortega y Gasset...
...sable three fusils conjoined in feese counter charged. The supporters - on either side a lion sable charged on the shoulder with a sun in splendour or." The board's announcement dotted the "i" of Author J. B. Priestley's comment, printed a day before in the New Statesman and Nation: "We are revolutionaries who have not swept away anything...
...universities, Sir Walter charges, are trying to renounce their responsibility for the education of youth. Philosopher C.E.M. Joad, discussing The Crisis in the New Statesman and Nation, satirizes the university attitude: "You want an atom bomb? Right! We will make it for you. But we really can't concern ourselves with the use to which you propose to put it . . . You want a cathedral? Right! The architectural department will tell you how to build it. But whether you should worship in it or keep pigs in it is a question which falls outside our province...
...University of Illinois' James Garfield Randall, 68, most scholarly of the Lincoln biographers (Lincoln and the South; Lincoln the Liberal Statesman), a mild and modest man who could usually be found on Sunday evenings in his kitchen, making talk and scrambled eggs for his favorite students. From other historians Randall won respect, though not always agreement. A Lincolnian with Southern sympathies, he scorned the school that looked upon the Civil War as an "irrepressible conflict," chose to regard the war as the tragic error of an emotional and "blundering generation...