Word: phrasing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...trades hard punches with social scientists, or at least with extreme behaviorists among them who seem to think that one human being would behave as well as another if their environments were equal. Hooton's contention: since feeblemindedness can be inherited, why not feeble morality? A favorite phrase of his is "moral imbecile...
...friend of mine in high-school once had the habit of peppering his exampapers with little academic witticisms, (partly in order to raise his grade). He got one paper back totally uncorrected, except for the single terse remark: "Clover--but not true." This one phrase well strikes the effect of the Martinu quartet. It was dazzlingly clever. As far as I could see, it capitalized on every music sure-fire ever invented: catchy, inclusive rhythms, abrupt changes in tempo, wild polytonality, a string technique which graded off from whole pages of unbearably shrill violin-chatter at some times...
Quoting Hemingway you cut in an unfortunate manner his phrase telling the American reader that it "might have been better" for me to be killed too as my general was. Hemingway continues-and only this makes sense: "because it would have spared him from many sufferings." I really don't mind about these sufferings, for, surviving this first battle of the second World War, I will perhaps live to read in 1942 in your estimable magazine the first reports from a liberated Madrid, Paris and Berlin...
...here have become inured to its details. Night bombings are no longer so scusational as they were in August. The invasion of Greece seems like old stuff. We tend to forget that each hour of bombing causes more loss of property than the fall of the Tacoma bridge. The phrase "severe damage to personnel." so carelessly bandied around by newspaper strategists, actually means that more blood has been poured onto the soil of Europe...
Like Henry IV, who believed France was worth a Mass, Avila Camacho may have believed that Mexico was worth a confession of faith. But whatever its motive, it was the most reassuring phrase Mexican Catholics had heard in a generation, for it foretold an end to an era of tribulation. Already Catholics have openly begun to rebuild ruined churches. Soon to take place at Campeche is a Eucharistic Congress, including outside processions (although priests are legally forbidden to wear clerical garb in public)-things which have not been allowed in Mexico for 30 years...