Word: thinking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Great Step. Laborite Bevin also dropped in at the National Press Club and won reporters' applause by his simple, rough-hewn ways/and his defense of the pact. Said Bevin: "To would-be aggressors, it says: 'Think twice-think thrice' ... I believe as the years go on it will be said of this week in Washington: 'There, in that pact, humanity took its great step to enthrone the great freedoms of the world...
...stirred up a high wind and some heavy dust when it advertised that all TV sets - except Zenith's - were in danger of becoming obsolete (TIME, March 21). Last week, the wind was dying and the dust settling. In a Baltimore speech, FCC Chairman Wayne Coy announced: "I think the question of obsolescence of television receivers is something of a tempest in a teapot . . ." No matter what decision FCC eventually makes about using Ultra High Frequency bands, Coy said, the present twelve channels will continue to be used. Furthermore, until FCC makes its decision, "the radio manufacturing industry cannot...
...leave his clerk's stool in a Dublin office and seek his fortune as a literary man-for "you cannot be imposed upon by baronets ... if you belong to the republic of art." He is sure that men of letters have been made this way, time & again. "Think of . . . the boy Dickens [working] in the blacking warehouse, and his undying resentment of his mother's wanting him to stay there. Think of Trollope, at an upper-class school with holes in his trousers, because his father could not bring himself to dispense with a manservant...
...dream and it was horrible to wake . . . I tell you I'm going to die any day now ... I am tired. It is time I went ... I must go on living because the Life Force is in desperate need of an organ of intelligent consciousness ... Do you think the young are interested in my work? ... I want to be remembered like Mozart and Michelangelo...
...result is something very like an ecstatic vision. Readers who believe that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in most contemporary philosophy may agree with Reader W. H. Auden: "I think he's an uncertain craftsman, but I don't care...