Word: lifelong
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...correctly, of integration. Each new fashion had been hailed as a panacea: 'Now we shall vanquish, now the machine will work!' Each had gone out with a whimper, leaving behind it the familiar English muddle, of which, more and more, in retrospect, he saw himself as a lifelong moderator. He had forborne, hoping others would forbear, and they had not. He had toiled in back rooms while shallower men held the stage. They held it still. Even five years ago he would never have admitted to such sentiments. But today, peering calmly into his own heart, Smiley knew...
...manger, for instance, are not mentioned in the Bible. Neither is the number of the Magi. The names Caspar, Melchior and Balthasar and the legend that Balthasar was black were popularized in the 8th century. Partly to make it easier for Catholics to believe in Mary's lifelong virginity, early church authors developed the notion that Joseph was an older man, presumably a widower, when he married...
What Carrington lacks in personal ambition is more than compensated for by the deep sense of noblesse oblige that has inspired his lifelong commitment to public service. Educated at Eton and Sandhurst, he won the Military Cross as an officer in the elite Grenadier Guards during World War II. An active member of the House of Lords since 1938, Carrington held government posts under Winston Churchill and Anthony Eden before being sent as High Commissioner to Australia in 1956. Three years later, he was named to the prestigious post of First Lord of the Admiralty. He served as Secretary...
...exceptionally lucky life," Auden said some four years before his death in 1973, and indeed it seemed to be. He enjoyed those rarest experiences in English literature, a happy childhood and a pleasant public school education. At Oxford in the '20s he made some impressive lifelong friends and acolytes: Stephen Spender, Louis MacNeice, C. Day Lewis. A Cambridge graduate named Christopher Isherwood also joined what became known as the Auden Gang. The publication of Poems (1930) made Auden famous...
...first woman on the U.S. Supreme Court. Before agreeing to become Secretary of Education, she extracted a promise from Carter that he would not preclude her from any future Supreme Court vacancy. For now, however, she is content to concentrate on education. To reporters, she insisted that her "lifelong interest" in education qualified her for the post. She admitted, however, that she does not "have any specific ideas right now about the Department of Education because I simply don't know enough about the entire program...