Word: entertainment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meaning of Myth. In Reason in Religion (1905) and Skepticism and Animal Faith (1923), Santayana had tried to strip life of all illusion - which included religion - and then proposed that the reader "entertain the illusion without succumbing to it." He held that religions were myths but that myths embodied great wisdom...
...week a somewhat shaky bridge had been found: the Pan American Union began to poll its members on postponement of the Rio conference. Onto the bridge stepped Secretary of State Jimmy Byrnes: postponement would be agreeable to the U.S. if other nations wanted it. Then the Colombians, who will entertain all 21 republics at a regular Pan American conference at Bogotá next December, obligingly suggested that the whole business of a military treaty be put off till then...
...Russians went to bat again the morning after-this time for Indonesia. The Ukraine's Dmitry Zakharovich Manuilsky started off mildly enough, charging on the basis of newspaper clippings that Britain was "endangering genuine national aspirations." Quipped Bevin: a newspaper has three functions: to amuse, to entertain, to mislead. The joke was ill-timed, and Vishinsky grimly pounced on it. The Briton had to listen while the totalitarian defended Britain's free press: "The fact that there is a free press in Britain entitles us to place some credence...
...Manhattan's pinko PM and the Boston Record. Joe Yancey, well-known Negro track coach, predicted that most Negro athletes would not go to San Antonio. But the red-faced A.A.U. stuck by its guns, said that special arrangements had been made in San Antonio to house and entertain competing Negroes...
...Gross might do some painting himself, but he has never had time. Nor has he time any more for golf or much of anything else outside his job. He and his wife entertain rarely. When they do, the guests are usually Lockheed executives, with a sprinkling of movie folk, such as Gross's old friend Walter Pidgeon...