Word: oftener
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...other hand, we dare to believe that our historical disciplines give to our men a perspective which American Protestantism too often lacks, and that, because of their habits of mind, they make a needed contribution to their several denominations. An English scholar has said that modern Protestantism has developed a 'theology of accommodation,' that is, it lives by a nicely calculated adjustment to the dominant interests of the common mind. Plainly, in so far as our American churches share the immediate interests and speak the vernacular of their world, they tend to lose the dispassionateness which pure religion ought...
...most French pictures at least the photography is beautiful. Here a high school movie puts it to shame: there are spots all over the screen, lighting effects are crudely overdone, and the focus is so often artily fuzzy that you squint, swear, and come out with sore eyes...
Words few thick among manuscript authorities and relatives of the composer until officials of the University pointed out that the Reverend Samuel F. Smith, who wrote the song, was an obliging fellow who often made copies in his own hand for friends who wanted them...
Melville, says steely Critic Blackmur, "habitually used words greatly," but was grievously limited to "putative statement" -to talking about dramatic intentions rather than embodying them. He was at his best in sermons, where the putative need not support itself. Emily Dickinson was pitifully irresponsible with words, too often wrote, instead of her extraordinary best, "a kind of vers de société of the soul...
...stated that above all we must have the intellectual courage to stick to our political, social, and economic ideals in the face of continual attack. "The alternative is a kind of cynicism and subtle adaptability which is ignoble," he commented. Those who refuse to change with political changes are often with political changes are often killed off, but these who man age to live through bad times are generally the worst," he concluded