Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more equal footing. The history of the world, the outline of science, digests of the world's humor, even the recent "Outline of Everything" show more or less the same tendency--the attempt to gain much in little. Even the newspapers cater to the general desire to understand all about the universe before breakfast. And the large reaction lurking in a cocktail, though sought by only the most debased, is sought with a similar, if somewhat tarnished, end in view...
...that their past, especially during and after the War, or their eminent intellectual qualities, are such as to give us reason to believe that they can render useful service to the nation." Of Mussolinismo-a term implying disapproval of Fascism and approval of Benito-the Premier said: "I can understand such a phenomenon, but I do not accept it. Certain people use my name to fight Fascismo. I warn them not to persist, because they might find that they have done it once too often. ... I am pictured as being surrounded by barbed wire nettings. This is a fairy story...
...idea of failure must be revised. A man who has left a definite ideal implanted in the minds of thousands of his followers--mainly because they were his followers by the way, and not because they were intelligent enough to understand or to visualize it--who has created a definite goal, toward which all nations will find themselves irresistibly urged in the perhaps not distant future, cannot be said to have failed. It is true that he could not perform the impossible task of instantly overcoming the inborn inhibitions and accumulated prejudices of the Senate, or of the American people...
Miss Binney plays the simplicity foil to the merry-merry Follies chorus girl. Somebody is trying to marry them both ?not the same somebody, you understand. After that a lot of the usual musical comedy things happen. One forgets which...
...quite at liberty to publish this letter if you wish. I cannot understand how Dr. Lawrence, the Bishop of Massachusetts, can have said that ... I had come to the conclusion 'that there is no essential connection between the belief in the Virgin birth and a belief in the incarnation. . . . The fact of the virginal conception of Christ was no sooner heard than it was welcomed by the Church and taken up into its creed. It has seemed to all successive generations that the belief in the incarnation was so congruous with belief in the Virgin birth that the former...