Word: wholely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hypnotic Suggestion. Nobody could believe that Boston, man-for-man the classiest club in baseball (except for pitching), was as bad as it seemed. The Red Sox sluggers, Ted Williams and Vern Stephens, were leading the league in home runs and runs-batted-in. The whole club was hustling, playing heads-up ball, and yet they were 9½ games behind...
...whole U.S. crop, the Department of Agriculture, which estimated it at 1,336,976,000 bushels in June, this week revised it down to 1,188,690,000. One of Chicago's ace wheat forecasters, C. M. Galvin, trimmed his own previous estimates by 153 million bushels...
Thanks to efficient research, Summertime has a deceptively substantial appearance. Its. authentic period sets and costumes are persuasively gay, and the whole film is redolent of early German-American Gemütlichkeit. Its only other claim to style is Judy Garland. In several spots, she manages to give the show the look and pace of a bang-up musical...
...lovers have paled into klieg-lighted stereotypes. Much of the time Peck and Miss Gardner act as if they had been stranded at a sedate costume party. In other scenes, when they try for a truly Slavic intensity, they seem to be acting out a burlesque on the whole school of Russian novelists. A few supporting players, including Ethel Barrymore, Agnes Moorehead and Frank Morgan, occasionally suggest what the film might have been-but only occasionally. At their worst, even the veterans lapse into the caricature of the fancy-dress ball...
Sheean came to a crucial religious question, whether certainty of God preceded renunciation of the world. Gandhi answered at once, "No, the renunciation precedes the certainty." Then he quoted to Sheean the first verse of the Isha Upanishad: "The whole world is the garment of the Lord. Renounce it, then, and receive it back as the gift...