Word: virtuese
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Such negative virtues are not quite enough. Miss Foley's contributors are earnest and well-intentioned, but nothing emerges boldly or sharply from their work. Lacking individuality or even eccentricity, most of the stories settle in the reader's mind like a grey blur. Though young in years...
Says O'Faolain, in further judgment: "The greatest curse of Ireland has not been English invasions or English misgovernment; it has been the exaggeration of Irish virtues-our stubbornness, conservatism, enormous arrogance, our power of resistance, our capacity for taking punishment, our laughter, endurance, fatalism, devotion to the past...
The real crisis, Oakeshott holds, is somewhat different. "In the past, a rising class was aware of something valuable enjoyed by others which it wished to share; but this is not so today. The leaders of the rising class are consumed with a contempt for everything which does not spring...
He joined the Army in 1917, served through World War I in a San Francisco Army office. In 1922 he got a job as a state deputy corporation commissioner; it seemed that he might jog on through life as an inconspicuous public servant. But California's Governor Friend Richardson...
In Behind the Curtain, the faults of the Gunther system are more noticeable than the virtues. Written after a six-month trip through Eastern Europe, Behind the Curtain says little of. importance about its fascinating subject that newspaper and magazine readers are not likely to know. It has less insight...