Word: tendernesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...problems are varied and vexing. There is the human element: the smiling lady, who, for some mysterious, feminine reason, kept plugging Lipton's Tea as she brewed a pot of her sponsor's Tender Leaf. There are mechanical embarrassments, too: the Gillette razor that got stuck in the middle of a display of its , simple operation...
...Tender-handed stroke a nettle, And it stings you for your pains; Grasp it like a man of mettle And it soft as silk remains...
...Tender Years (20th Century-Fox) is a tearjerker about a mid-19th Century dog. The dog has to fight professionally to earn his master's keep, although he would prefer to live peacefully with a little boy. The picture attains a focus of unusual moral and dramatic interest when a minister (Joe E. Brown) steals the dog and faces trial and jail rather than return him. But everything is comfortably fixed up before this conflict between legality and sentiment can seriously excite or embarrass the audience. Except for some ugly moments around the dog pit, and the irreducibly likable...
Whitehead was saturated with the sense of a divine influence, which organizes the universe so that what is worth saving is never wholly lost. For Whitehead, God was not an awesome tyrant but "the poet of the world, with tender patience leading it by his vision of truth, beauty and goodness." It is a long, hard road. In the Odyssey of the human spirit, said Whitehead, "every generation must carry the cross up the hill and there suffer for the next generation." Last week in Cambridge, Mass., 86-year-old Philosopher Whitehead went over his hill...
During the vacation, last winter's freshman player Mel Allen showed brilliantly at defense while Bill Yetmen and John Chase have been giving Jack Lavalle a strong battle for the starting goal-tender assignment...