Word: waywardness
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...Hope of Walt Whitman. The idea of chronicling Sadakichi's wayward life and times began as a club gag. But Fowler took it seriously, and raked together the few known facts about this eccentric's eccentric. When he was not with his mock-worshipful pals, Sadakichi lived on an Indian reservation, posing as an Indian. Actually, he was the son of a German coffee merchant who had married a Japanese girl. His first name means "steady luck" in Japanese. Fields contended that it meant "Gimme some dough!" And Barrymore stoutly maintained that "Sadakichi is the mating call...
Last week, in a special series, the News told its readers just how far the three Rs have spread. "A teen-age reign of terror." it said, "has transformed New York City's public-school system into a vast incubator of crime in which wayward and delinquent youngsters receive years of 'protection' while developing into toughened and experienced criminals." What is being done about the rising rate of rape, assault, knifings, thefts and dope addiction? Says the News: largely because of a feeling that neither the Board of Education nor Superintendent William Jansen (TIME, Oct. 19) will...
...moderation, there is much that Camus' rebellion fears. Nihilism and terrorism, its wayward daughters, it hates and fears as the true believer hates and fears the heretic. Camus senses in these systems the tragic consequences of a rebellion gone awry. Nihilism and the terror4 are wrong because they have overstepped the limits. For them the search for order has brought murder and destruction. But with the great force Camus asserts that it need...
...Eastern Territory, then all 225,000 Salvation Army members in the U.S. Nominated to lead the worldwide organization in 1946, Old Campaigner Pugmire turned down the offer because of an ailing heart, continued to direct the annual spending of more than $18 million to uplift America's wayward and comfort her poor...
...fiction's report card, Monsieur Paul rates no top grades itself, but it has some virtues that more pretentious novels often lack. Author Calet writes a clean, colloquial prose in which he gets across his good-natured sympathy for his wayward hero. Working as close to his subject as a good bullfighter, he knows Tom's character and keeps it consistent. The diary and the novel end with Tom planning to run out on both his women and his son, but Author Calet explodes no moral dynamite under him. He seems to hope that son Paul will make...