Word: suggests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Congratulations . . . It comes as a welcome relief to find someone brave enough to suggest that with all its clamor and clangour there is possibly a word to be said for New York City...
...those who wish Picasso had kept his art "recognizable," the docents can quote the protean genius's own words. "What do you think an artist is," he once burst out, "an imbecile who has only his eyes?" They might also suggest that baffled gallery-goers become willing "imbeciles" themselves-using their eyes to the full, and not asking too many questions. But that of course might do away with the docents...
...author does not suggest how scientists can decide which facts to avoid uncovering-or how to tell in advance what good or what evil a new discovery may lead to. But he does suggest a general attitude that may be more high-minded than practical: "To prove that they are not mercenaries . . . they might take a stand against the continuation of military research. They might urge their fellow technicians to stop making more bombs. They might indeed stop supporting war, either directly or indirectly . . . The people want our scientists to do more than damn the use of yesterday...
...Princes who have so often dishonored the poem. He sees-and plays -Hamlet as a brave, resolute, delicate-souled man who was required, as Goethe said, to do the one thing on earth which happened to be impossible for that particular man to do. But Olivier hardly begins to suggest why (nobody has ever done more than suggest it), and he does not richly enough suggest the sidelights and terrifying silences within the greatest of the music Hamlet speaks...
...skeptical Scottish undergraduate named Loudon Hamilton, who, when Buchman first urged him to listen for God's instructions, replied: "I have been accustomed to address God myself on occasion . . . but that was only a one-way communication. If God were to speak to me, as you suggest, I am not quite sure it would not be somewhat uncomfortable." * The real Oxford Movement took place in the mid-19th century under the leadership of John Henry (later Cardinal) Newman, John Keble and Edward Pusey. * Said Dr. Buchman, in a New York World-Telegram interview: I thank heaven...