Word: warmth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ceremonial Sheep's Ear. Before he entered Russia, Douglas dined with India's Nehru, who was still bowled over by the warmth of the reception the Russians had given him on his own visit. Said Nehru: "The Russians remind...
Reminder of a Reminder. Florida's indifference comes partly from the letdown after the tumultuous gubernatorial campaign that ended in sweeping victory for Incumbent LeRoy Collins. Even more, it can be traced to the fact that Floridians, basking in the warmth of their economic boom, seem in no mood for a change: they still like Ike and tend to see the Democratic nominee, whoever he may be, as an inevitable also...
...coughing, and takes refuge in a London boarding house run by a little Cockney girl of his acquaintance. In Cronin's rendition, Jenny speaks Cockney as if she had learned it from a talking book, but Stephen finds "something in her, a simple quality of womanhood, of homely warmth," marries her and settles down to paint in slummy seclusion. "How happy he was with these simple people whom the members of his own class would doubtless have looked down upon as 'common.'" When his old girl beseeches him to return to his sorrowing father, Stephen declares ringingly...
...America, college life is one of exemplary ease. I liked Harvard for its naive display of an idealized Anglo-Saxon world, engendered by the memories of emigres, for the dazzling colors in the humid warmth--halls, monuments and lawns arising from a deluge in which European civilization would have perished. At Harvard, white and blue bulbous bell-towers of the dormitories, with their splendor comparable to English chateaux, the Anthenian or Napoleonic-styled libraries, the trees sprayed with D.D.T. every week, Memorial Hall (which is a miniature Westminster), all appear to have been constructed to reassure young Americans...
...impersonal exterior. As one graduate student in sociology explains, while "his overt behaviorial manifestations" are not warm, his great interest in students indicates otherwise. Nearly all who know him attribute his reserve to "excessive modesty" and shyness. After a few cocktails at a party, one friend jokes, his real warmth begins to glow. Similarly, while he usually speaks with painstaking care, his "Parsonian Prose" colors a bit when he defends Oppenheimer...