Word: whims
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moment of triumph, Nominee Adlai Stevenson announced a decision that gave the 1956 Democratic Convention its highest, wildest moments: he left the nomination of a vice-presidential candidate entirely to the will and whim of the delegates without a word about his personal choice...
...cherished stigmata of the True Artist-a "slight figure and sensitive face, dark eyes and delicate pallor," and at every crisis he coughs blood. His father is appalled when Stephen insists he Wants To Paint. "To throw away your brilliant prospects, wreck your whole career, for a mere whim," he wails. Stephen is adamant: "The only thing that mattered was this creative instinct that burned within him." He Renounces All, including the love of the neighboring squire's daughter, a girl with an "air of quiet composure, a sense of inescapable good breeding," who appreciates "the essential fineness...
...wonder what odd capricious whim Could create this figure of visage grim. One thing is clear for all to see Who view her image: no Monroe, she. I can't truly say that I envy the bloke Who owns the lady of the artichoke; Then why go and pay a fortune small, To have her hanging on his wall...
Academic freedom, weighted with difficulties (particularly of definition), hastily invoked upon the least provocation to justify any whim or action, is a term recklessly vulgarized and deserves better treatment. Academic freedom can be defined as that right which aids scholars in the pursuit of truth. This freedom ceases to be a right and becomes a revocable privilege when the student or teacher loses truth as the end and substitutes mere expression of opinion. If human fulfillment, to which the academy is devoted, is to be realized, an immutable truth, observed as the mind may comprehend it and confirmed by conscience...
...moves more swiftly as Joan clashes violently with Bishop Pierre Cauchon, the only other major character. Her finest moments come in a dramatic song ending in her recantation. Soprano Elaine Malbin, as Joan, not only sang beautifully, but turned out to be an actress of imposing ability, and her whim per as the final flames rose about her was a terrible thing to hear...