Word: profession
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Clearly illustrating the angel-devil attitude of "The New Student" is a short, hard-hitting, and forced broadside by Reuben Hersh called "The Liberal's Dilemma." It states the thesis that both major political parties, whatever they profess, are working hand-in-hand to further the interests of militarists and monopolists at home and abroad. This position is dwelt on at greater length by the editors in an article "What Now, What Next." Their discussion, however, adds little to Mr. Hersh's story, except for the dogma that the Wallace Third Party is the only "genuine alternative to war, depression...
Last August the Government charged Technicolor and Eastman Kodak Co., which the Government charges has cross-licensing agreements with Technicolor, with conspiracy to monopolize the industry. But Dr. Kalmus does not profess to be worried about the suit. He insists that his color processes are well known and no secret. Said he: "The only secret knowledge we have is know-how and you can't break up know-how by court order...
Tenniel was just the man to take Doyle's place. "If I have my own little politics," he once murmured, "I keep them to myself and profess only those of my paper." The Victorians most admired Tenniel for his illustrations to romances like Lalla Rookh and The Silver Cord, which today seem absurdly overemphatic. Tenniel's cartoons were something else again, his sharp jabs to the funny bone contrasted tellingly with the roundhouse rights of Punch's rivals. If his cartoons were not invariably from the heart, they always, like Tenniel's Alice illustrations (and like...
...secluded life away from its glitter. He was forever holding up fashionable cliches to good-humored examination, asking himself (and his readers) "Is that so?" He would attack the steamrollers that seemed to be flattening originality out of American life. But in the next sentence, he would profess his faith in the ability of Americans to go their individual ways. Two Came to Town, the last of his eleven books, was one such affirmation...
McBride and De Valera have one thing in common: they both profess to believe in a Republican Ireland isolated and cut off from the rest of the world; and most of the young people in the country are anxious to see Eire take its stand with the U.S. and Great Britain in their effort to create better world conditions...