Word: sticks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Alsopian reason repulsive. The columnists' work is clearly that of dedicated and respectable, if unattractive vision of the truth. But the tone of the pursuers, the positive arrogance of Joseph Alsop (who once stormed out of an interview which he had requested with Lewis Strauss after slamming his walking stick down on Strauss' desk and declaring "Sir, you have just wasted a half hour of my time.") adds up to a totally ineffective method of communicating...
...Renaissance Popes did not stick at theological points in art matters, but avidly built up one of the world's richest collections of classical religious works, both,Roman and Greek. More courageous was their patronage of living masters for the greater glory of God. Among hundreds of other artists, the Popes had the wisdom to commission Leonardo, Raphael and Michelangelo. These three, as devout and exalted artists as ever lived, vied with one another in service to the Vatican. Among them they exemplified and gave the highest expression to the three facets of beauty as articulated by St. Thomas...
...Stick to It. Bush teaching is not always that simple; Frontier College instructors have had squabbles with union leaders and with management, sometimes have to roar out lessons above the din of a bunkhouse card game. One teacher told Principal Robinson last year: "Many times this summer I've hated your guts." But the school has few resignations. Most teachers, says Robinson, "stick to it no matter what. The result is respect...
Also hampering the Yale attack was Bump Howe's brilliant goal-tending. Using his lacrosse stick like a combination baseball bat-broom, Howe not only stopped Eli shots but often swept the ball far upfield. He turned in 26 saves in the game...
...degenerates in lesser moments into remarkably explicit single-entendre that is crude without being funny. Crudity seems, generally speaking, to be the defect inherent in Brecht's attempt to simplify life to the point where it can be described in his almost-allegorical terms. His characters are often lifeless stick-figures whose only identity is a label, and his political and social pronouncements are over-stated, over-emphasized, over-dramatized past the point of exasperation...