Word: discernment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...writing about the Sever chairs. This letter is the delayed expression of first growing doubt, then smouldering disgust and alarm, not only at the new chairs themselves but at the sheepish, unthinking acquiescence with which we accept them. A prophetic eye would discern in the chairs a sign of a new attitude toward education, and perhaps also in their slow but sure advance, Hitler-fashion, from classroom to classroom, a symbol of the gradual and easy deception and deadening of popular reaction...
...people feel about it? The State Department, which gets bushels of letters when Palestine, China or Spain is involved, had gotten only a trickle in the 14 weeks the North Atlantic pact was being negotiated. Did this indicate apathy or agreement? As far as anxious State Department men could discern, the U.S. public had accepted, long since, the important principles involved...
Those are the turns, as the American has witnessed them. And it is hard for him to discern in them anything he can describe by the word "principle...
...there iniquity in my tongue? Cannot my taste discern perverse things? . . . Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred...
...find ourselves a nation in which the conviction-forming agencies of all sorts which are aided by the State will count against rather than for religious faith. That would be the opposite of the intention of many who have contributed to the result, including those Protestants who fail to discern the full meaning of the current interpretation of the Constitution...