Word: warm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...kindness and humility, his deep, mystical piety, and his humanitarian political views all indicated that here was a scientist who kept in touch with the people to whom his science was dedicated. And the world realized this. It knew that Einstein, the Universe Maker, was still a warm human being--still the man who could take time to solve a geometry problem for a high school girl...
...itself in and prove its competence. There will be no dramatic changes in British policy, either at home or abroad. The big names of the Eden Cabinet, notably Macmillan and the tough-minded Marquess of Salisbury, who is staying on as Lord President of the Council, share a warm though hardheaded friendliness towards...
...greatly fear one thing. If men will not clothe the bare framework of science with the warm garments of true humanism, they will end up by making machines their god and mathematics their only dogma. The rising paganism of the western world will make our civilization cold as interstellar spaces, ruthless as the atoms which smash each other...
...genuineness of their vocation, or an onslaught of "scrupulosity"-obsession with insignificant imperfections that begin to loom like mortal sins. Most agonizing of all is spiritual dryness, analyzed by St. John of the Cross in his book, The Dark Night of the Soul. Without any apparent cause, all the warm joy and pleasure that the religious normally finds in prayer and the monastic routine suddenly disappears. As one contemporary has described it: "The entire spiritual world seems meaningless and unreal; even one's own most vivid spiritual experiences fade out like half-forgotten dreams. One becomes keenly, sometimes agonizingly...
Milliet's most biting judgment: "He painted like a staff officer . . . He painted top lavishly and paid no attention to details . . . And his color . . . Extreme, abnormal, inadmissible. Sonic tones were too warm, too violent, not tame enough. You see, the artist should paint with love, not with passion. A canvas should be 'caressed'; Van Gogh would rape it . . . At times he was a real brute, a tough...