Word: strictness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strict taskmistress, Edith Efron passed only five of her 20 students, flunked all but one of the professional newsmen. Last week the Haitian National Assembly was considering a permanent department of journalism at the University of Haiti. Probable chairman: Edith Efron...
...youth in Wales, Sam Higginbottom was sure that the last thing he wanted to be was a missionary ("Not for Sam Higginbottom-no, sir"). All the same, he read his Bible carefully and decided that "the attitude of Jesus was strict and uncompromising. He would not accept the position of being Lord of half my life-He wanted it all . . . I argued and tried to think of some way to get around this demand, but whichever way I turned, there He was . . . At long last I concluded that there would be no peace of mind for me unless I yielded...
...history of the Trappists since the founding of their order in the 12th Century. For an authorized account, the book has moments of uncommon candor. According to Merton, the history of many 17th Century Trappist monasteries "was nothing but a series of petty and sordid intrigues." Forgotten was the strict, humble, ascetic life once outlined by St. Benedict. "The monks . . . had all the comforts of the upper class, with servants and feather beds in their own private apartments." By the 18th Century, Trappist novices were having it so nice that "noble and bourgeois families chose such monasteries as refuges...
...because he was curious, because he had quarreled with his wife, because "I was not lucky in the army." Criticism of the Soviet regime attributed to him really came from "this travesty of a human being," Pirogov. Wrote Barsov: "Traitors to their country . . . should be subjected to a strict isolation and even destruction ... I am in the category of those people, and I have to be destroyed if I shall not be corrected by the corrective labor camps...
...quarrels as possible. In brawling Santa Fe, arguments were usually won by the man who was first on the draw. So the New Mexican's first two-page issue carried a "let's-be-friends" note: "The New Mexican, in Politics and Religion, will maintain a strict neutrality, regarding partisanship as utterly unnecessary and a barrier to the general good...