Word: studiousness
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Emigrants & Strangers. Roaming through the streets of Edinburgh, the hills of Pentland, the romantic Highlands, Novelist Stevenson and Critic Daiches are as happy together as two old emigrants swapping reminiscences of the old country. But in most other matters they are temperamentally total strangers. Studious Critic Daiches is chiefly interested in showing that if Stevenson had not been cut off in his prime, he would have parked his little scooter and become as profound and dignified as Sophocles and Shakespeare. Romantic Novelist Stevenson (a tubercular who was to die in Samoa at 43) was chiefly interested in enjoying the lively...
...solution: "A law for the material and moral protection of our child's press." To twist home the point, the editors ran a two-column cut of a handsome, curly-haired boy doing his homework under lamplight. No comics were in sight, but the caption read: "Is this studious little boy to be the prey of Yankee journalism, the murderer of youthful minds...
...injustices and burdens of life in a capitalistic world. . . . The bourgeois American subscribes to the same definition of religion as Marx. In America religion is generally cherished merely for its consolation value. A tremolo on the organ, a theologically inaccurate sermon full of sweetness and light, a studious avoidance of the ghastly details of the Passion and our contribution to it, a sentimental misinterpretation of the Sermon on the Mount, the presentation of a God who always understands, demanding no greater retribution than a few coins dropped in the collection box: this is the psychological haircut, shave and massage which...
...Heman Marion Sweatt, a studious mail-carrier, who was refused admission to the University of Texas law school at Austin because of his race (TIME, March 11, 1946). The new Negro university has a faculty of 85, but it has no law school. Besides, Sweatt planned to continue his court fight for admission to the University of Texas. He was convinced that the new university did not meet the "equal facilities" requirement laid down by a U.S. Supreme Court decision in 1938. Apparently no one else thought so, either. Said Acting President Allen E. Norton, a Negro: "Institutions...
...plant in 1944. Heavy-set Alexander von der Luft, 23, had been born in Wilmington. His father was an official of the American Cyanamid and Chemical Corp. at Bridgeville, Pa. Von der Luft had interrupted his study of chemical engineering at Princeton University to enlist. He was quiet and studious. Earnest Wallis had been born in Indianapolis in 1913. He had left school to go into commercial photography in Cleveland. His father was a railroad auditor of modest means...