Word: timidities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recovery coming from? From politics? European politics has become just one vast area of frustration. The tory parties are finished, though it is characteristic of individual tories that some of them haven't yet found that out. The traditional social democratic parties are old and tired and timid. . . . Everywhere in Europe, the Communists are the party with what driving power there is. They at least seem to know what they're trying to do. They act like men who really believe in their offer of salvation...
Youthful, maidenly Chantal lives in a French chateau whose Second Empire shrubberies and wide, tawny avenues are described by Bernanos with vivid feeling. With her live her timid, pedantic father (who has written volumes of history but cannot stir a step without the counsel of his psychiatrist) and her psychotic grandmother (who still clutches to her bosom the keys of storage cupboards that have long ceased to exist). Of such as them, Chantal says simply: "What can God find to say to those who, of their own free will, of their own weight incline toward sadness and turn instinctively toward...
Hutchins, who already holds four jobs in the Britannica hierarchy, will add a fifth: chairman of the board of editors. He plans to concentrate on two projects: 1) hopping up Britannica's 24 films a year (most of which strike him as "too timid, too unimaginative"), thereby leading the way in an "enormous development" of educational films aimed at new, cheaper projectors; 2) editing a 63-volume, "popular-priced" ($200-$250) set of "the great books of the western world," first one-package edition of the "100 Books," many of which are out of print...
...subscribers (at $4 a year). To season its heavy fare of discussions, digests and editorials, there will be dashes of humor and satire, columns with titles like The Little Dog Laughed and Poor Adam's Almanack. "In short," says Clarence Streit, "Freedom & Union will be neither a timid, pallid neutral nor a narrow, humorless zealot." But it will try to count for something among "influential English-reading people" the world over...
...Killed Cock Robin? What had caused its demise? The New York Times thought that Walter Winchell,* who had blurted out hints of war in his Sunday broadcast, had started the avalanche. His big "boo" may have shaken a few timid souls, but no more. Other explanations: the revival of OPA, wage boosts, strikes, production bottlenecks, big inventories, or simply an it's about time slump in the 52-month-old bull market. Said the New-Dealing PM: "There's something wrong with the way America is being managed...