Word: faithfully
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Thus while brokers are heralding the birth of a new growth stock, scientists are more circumspect. Says Walter Miller, a University of California researcher: "To buy stock in these companies right now would require an enormous leap of faith and an assumption about which company will be most successful." Nevertheless, investors are expected to rush to grab the first shares of Genentech...
Nabokov's faith in the transforming magic of an artist's style leads him to overrate the beautifully written blarney of Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. By the same token, he somewhat underrates Jane Austen, who, despite her "pert, precise and polished" prose, is so deeply rooted in the quotidian that he misses her enchantment. Yet he celebrates his own aesthetic, the "capacity to wonder at trifles," with an ardor that is irresistible. "These asides of the spirit, these footnotes in the volume of life are the highest forms of consciousness," he maintains...
Irony, pathos and wistful disenchantment color the writer's prose. Reflecting on World War II and the Nazi occupation that shaped his outlook, Milosz observed: "The act of writing a poem is an act of faith; yet if the screams of the tortured are audible in the poet's room, is not his activity an offense to human suffering? And if the next hour may bring his death and the destruction of his manuscript, should the poet engage in such a pastime...
...wrinkled first mother hasn't lost a step in the last 14 years, since she went to India for the Peace Corps at age 68. Next, Carter praised Rose Kennedy, the 90-year-old Massachusetts matriarch, who he said "epitomizes the meaning of a family and the meaning of faith." Nods and smiles all around, from young and old, both in the community center gynmasium and outside in Prince Street and Polcari Playground...
...faith never wavered, but neither did it save him from dipsomaniacal binges. He asked Author Nancy Mitford, a favorite correspondent: "Did I ever come to visit you again after my first sober afternoon. If so, I presume I owe you flowers." As he ruefully described the times he was "d.d." (disgustingly drunk) in his letters, Waugh made himself one of his better comic characters: "I got to my train d.d. and it was the Cheltenham Flier full of respectable stockbrokers . . . and I walked down the train picking up all the mens hats and looking inside and saying: 'People...