Word: renderings
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...religion make a truly practical contribution toward the preservation of democracy against the threat of totalitarianism? What is the real nature of the forces of disintegration that are at work today? How do they function? Is it possible to render them powerless by opposing them with forces of integration? If so, how? The nature of the threatening conditions must be investigated and the endeavor must be made to find means by which they can be rendered harmless...
...week is atrocious. You try to make him out as an ogre. I have met him and he is a very charming and handsome man. Your story on him is a mixture of reluctant fairness and failure to resist your general temptation to belittle big men who try to render a conscientious public service...
...policy, he plumps regularly for reconstruction rather than mere reform. He is sure the impediments go much deeper than SEC red tape. Like any big businessman, he wants new outlets for new investment; a theorist, he sees the unscrambling of utilities as just that. To force it, he will render increasingly unpopular decisions; fewer & fewer friends will friendly Jerome Frank have. Consoling him is his strong belief that friends and foes have an ultimate community of interest. If his theory proves correct, future U. S. investors may well thank him for being a pioneer...
...monopolistic ease contents not Publisher Bingham nor his general manager, Mississippi-born Mark Foster Ethridge (onetime president of the National Association of Broadcasters). They have ideas and ideals, they keep on spending money for new features, now & again take a full page to render their readers an "Account of Our Stewardship...
...Krutch's history is of necessity informal. While it is possible today to examine and assay the work of individual dramatists, it is as yet impossible to render any final judgments as to the ultimate meaning of their work in terms of the American drama. If Mr. Krutch has chosen to approach his subject as critic rather than as professor, he has done wisely. The formal history which will eventually be produced at some university will perhaps have the advantage of a greater temporal perspective, but its writer will be hard put to it to match the keenness...