Word: wordings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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President Conant spoke not so long ago about "tough-minded idealism." The trouble with many of the old idealists, the ones whose influence should now be approaching a peak, is that they have become tough--or perhaps the better word is "hard", and brittle--and soft inside. They are safe from the depredations of new ideas; they find it easier to chew their own fat. The man Mr. Conant is thinking of may have a tender skin, but his nerves are awake and he is well-muscled...
...same city, two years ago, Gil Dodds, the runner whose style outraged the copybooks but whose speed broke mile records, had forsaken track to preach the word of God. His old coaches had begged him to try running again. Finally he agreed. Explained earnest Gil Dodds, 28: "I prayed about it, of course. And my wife consented...
...street had the last word. Unasked, one N. H. Partridge of Thornton Heath, Surrey, put three names in nomination: Henry Wallace, "the man who faced America"; Albert Einstein, "for trying"; and Anon., "a child born recently who will be the last survivor of Europe, which . . . will have become a vast, slightly radioactive wilderness, entirely devoid of human life...
...Jews, Protestants and Catholics should unite against a common foe. It is not a unity of religion we plead for that is impossible when purchased at the cost of the unity of truth, but a unity of religious peoples. ... In a word, if anti-Christ has his fellow-travelers, then why should not God and His Divine Son? . . . We may not be able to meet in the same pew -would to God we did - but we can meet on our knees...
...week. As usual, he kept in daily communication with his New York office by telephone. Says he: "If I didn't keep my guard up all the time, those goddamned bankers would scalp me in a minute." (His habit of pronouncing "goddamned bankers" as if it were one word is so familiar to his banking friends that they no longer feel sworn...