Word: discipleship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...David Stern. Fort himself said almost nothing, quietly sipped ginger ale. The others enthusiastically laid plans for a Fortean Society which would propagate Fortism to the ends of the earth. The exhilaration of that dinner passed. In 1932 Fort died in The Bronx. But one man kept his discipleship alive. This was Tiffany Thayer, whose gaudy, perfervid novels (Thirteen Men, Thirteen Women, Illustrious Corpse, etc.) are not unlike the writings of Charles Fort, and who keeps a 9-ft. python...
...overt political action as advocates of the Popular Front in Great Britain. Will the bond finally snap? Or will it be repaired and will the three be joined again as the triumvirate of English poetry searching for "new country" of political and social experiment as well as of literary discipleship to masters like G. M. Hopkins, Yeats, and Eliot...
...name, for his abilities, even for his eccentricities, a profoundly sentimental reverence. This reverence of pupil for teacher all ages of civilized men share in common nostalgic felicity. It persists in a time and among men who conscientiously harbor cynicism. It is, in short, an inescapable adjunct to discipleship. It is not, however, an inescapable adjunct to professorship. Every teacher, it is true, receives some small portion--his due as an officer, as an adult. But to very few is it given in full measure. And to these few is applied an adjective as hackneyed in its ordinary...
Such criticism must rest upon a failure to understand Mr. Smith's peculiar position in the east and especially in Massachusetts. In the Democrats of Massachusetts, his name inspires implicit confidence and blind discipleship; where he leads they follow. Mr. Smith is conscious that any prolonged appeal for Governor Roosevelt would fall on half-interested cars; what Massachusetts Democrats want to hear is the tale of '28, the tale of Republican bigotry, and hypocrisy, the tale of their unswerving loyalty. To recall to their minds his moral ascendancy, Mr. Smith has small need of polished periods, of intricate logic...
Finally, Republican delegates will pursue their labored antics in as gloomy an aura of depression as their party has yet experienced. Aside from an ardent discipleship of Mellon methods which led managers to underestimate by $35,000 the total cost of the jamboree, it has become painfully necessary to lower the price of mezzannine seats from $100 to $40. Moreover, by chartering the arena for the weeks following the Republican convention, Democratic leaders have managed to chalk up to the G. O. P. ledger some $15,000 worth of staging and decoration. The show...