Word: belongings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Would that men like Msgr.-Sheen ... could retire to the Middle Ages, where they belong in spirit! Such clever men serve merely to hinder what harassed modern man really needs: a reinterpretation of the nature of man on the basis of new psychological and philosophical insights. I refer them not only to Freud, but to the efforts of such truly significant men as Albert Schweitzer and José Ortega y Gasset...
...brains behind the new transmission, like those behind many another Packard innovation, belong to Colonel Jesse G. Vincent, Packard's chief engineer. Unlike most engineers, Vincent never attended college; he quit school after the eighth grade, got his degree from a correspondence school. After a stint with Burroughs Adding Machine Co. and one with the Hudson Motor Car Co., he joined Packard in 1912, became a vice president three years later, specializing in engines...
...Marxist and he plays the part with rumpus-raising, vociferous passion. His paintings are famed for clarity; Rivera's fiery politics are not. He has been a Communist and he talks like one still, but the party now considers him too un disciplined to let him belong...
Actually, Lloyd's Register was too big and powerful to be much worried. Both the Register and Lloyd's itself have many ties with the U.S. Lloyd's is not an insurance agency but a meetinghouse for underwriters (who pay $40,000 to belong) and is used by many U.S. business and insurance men to hedge their risks by "laying them off" with the underwriters. They have found Lloyd's underwriters willing to bet on any risk if the customer has an insurable interest, i.e., a customer can insure that a horse will...
...Letters. Much the same class-conscious humiliation caused Shaw to leave his clerk's stool in a Dublin office and seek his fortune as a literary man-for "you cannot be imposed upon by baronets ... if you belong to the republic of art." He is sure that men of letters have been made this way, time & again. "Think of . . . the boy Dickens [working] in the blacking warehouse, and his undying resentment of his mother's wanting him to stay there. Think of Trollope, at an upper-class school with holes in his trousers, because his father could...