Word: windowful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...life Jack Curtin, 59, had never felt the need to see the non-Australian world. Years ago, Vance Marshall, an Australian laborite now living in London, visited Jack in Perth. "I'm on my way to England," Marshall said. Curtin looked out the window, at the endless, cloudless western sky. "Isn't there room enough in Australia?" he finally asked. "Not for me," 'retorted Marshall. "Australia's in the back wash. It's back of beyond of even the fringe of things that matter. I want to be where history is written...
...coal scuttle near the stove, the lignite coal began to stir. Soon lumps of coal popped spontaneously from the bucket and flew about the room. They hit the walls and Pupil Jack Steiner's head. The bucket capsized. The window shades began to smolder. A dictionary, touched by no human hand, started moving. The book case suddenly burst into flame...
...After getting into bed, 22% of husbands read, 12% talk to their wives, 7% listen to the radio, 3% pray, 2% smoke, 2% eat, 2% get up to close the window, 50% say they do nothing. Of the wives. 29% read, 11% talk, 8% listen to the radio, 5% pray, 3% think, 2% smoke, 1% eat, 1% get up to go to the bathroom, 40% do nothing. The average husband is ready for lights out after 19 minutes; the wife, after 14 minutes...
There was no Catholic protest, although some Catholics criticized the window as art, complained that the design was not particularly appropriate. Jesuit Father John LaFarge (son of famed Painter John LaFarge) called the window "unobjectionable." "It does not mean," he added, "that the Blessed Mother is taking a partisan stand, but that she feels a maternal concern for our men in service." Last week the Navy ordered Designer Burnham to remove the warship from his design, substitute the Infant Jesus...
...Jones is realist enough to know that moral desire is not enough to constitute a program, and Professor Becker does not kick the fellow who is ready with the blueprint out his Cornell study window. Different in temper and approach, Becker and Jones can nevertheless be reconciled and harmonized. They want the same thing: a four-power agreement among the Russians, the Chinese, the Americans and the British. They want the agreement to be moral in content. Whether they reckon with the possibility that moral unity may prove to be a pious dream in a world that includes both communists...