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...editorials, Parliaments and Chancelleries, in universities, clinics and at cocktail parties, Christianity is invoked. Juvenile delinquency? Broken homes? Neuroses? "The answer is a sound Chris tian upbringing." High divorce rate? Alcoholism? Disintegrating ethics? "We need a firm Christian morality." Is science getting out of hand? Are art and literature aimless? "Christianity gives the only aim." Communism? "Only Christianity can defeat a false religion." A more complex, highbrow version of this mood is expressed by British Historian Arnold Toynbee, who concludes his massive, ten-volume A Study of History* with the finding that the West can be saved from atomic...
...news of Geneva was that the great Western alliance was fumbling, aimless and adrift. The allies agreed on their fears, but not on what to do about them. They didn't like the bobbing of events, but felt helpless to control them...
...English department, conscious also of the aimless groove into which tutorial can fall, has experimented with a tutorial plan fitted into regular section meetings. The superiority of the Economics plan is evident: tutorial can remain unfettered by the limitations of one particular course and still-be assessed at the end of the year...
Avid for news himself, he was quick to chide when replies were tardy. ("No letter, Goodykin, none today yet?") He came so close to treating his talented wife like an aimless birdbrain that Jane once chided him for writing "as if I were some nice child, writing ... to its Godpapa." But occasionally, Carlyle came close to sharing an idea with his "wee wifiekin," as when he was moved by the human and physical blight of the Industrial Revolution on a South Wales town: "The town might be ... one of the prettiest places in the world...
...hell around her but never really comprehends it. With wistful comfort from a distant but remembered past, she plods through the present listlessly, leaving her hair-brush on the breakfast table and her girdle in the bureau. A less gifted actress would make Lola only repulsive, infuriating for her aimless sloppiness, her complete lack of intellect and sensitivity. Miss Booth, however, draws an infinitely pathetic portrait of a lonely and well-meaning, but painfully limited woman unable to cope with her life...