 America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration; not agitation, but adjustment; not surgery, but serenity; not the dramatic, but the dispassionate; not experiment, but equipoise; not submergence...  American Character - Sivu 25tekijä(t) Brander Matthews - 1906 - 33 sivuaKoko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | William Robert Shepherd - 1919 - 848 sivua
...White House. "America's first needs," he said in perhaps the only words of his that are now remembered, "is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy;...but restoration . . . not surgery, but serenity." He cherished the impossible dream of leading the nation back to the "good old days" of pre-war America,... | |
 | Warren Gamaliel Harding, Frederick Edward Schortemeier - 1920 - 264 sivua
...compensations that so supreme a tragedy may give mankind. NORMAL CONDITIONS GREAT NEED America's present need is not heroics, but healing ; not nostrums but normalcy ; not revolution, but restoration ; not agitation, but adjustment ; not surgery, but serenity ; not the dramatic, but the dispassionate ; not... | |
 | Charles Austin Beard, Mary Ritter Beard - 1927 - 848 sivua
...the country did not approve either the diagnosis or the announcement of the cure. "America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but...but restoration; . . . not surgery but serenity." In these brief phrases, delivered to an audience of responsive captains of industrial enterprise in... | |
 | Kenneth J. Clifford - 1973 - 172 sivua
...commanding the 2d Division. (USMC Photo *529042). 24 CHAPTER II POSTWAR DISARMAMENT PERIOD America's present need is not heroics but healing: not nostrums but...revolution but restoration; . . . not surgery but serenity. Senator Warren G. Harding, 1920 Normalcy, while difficult to define, was what the American people wanted.... | |
 | Kathleen Hall Jamieson - 1988 - 316 sivua
...rhetorical problems with another. On May 14, 1920, Warren G. Harding proclaimed: "America's present need is not heroics but healing, not nostrums but normalcy, not revolution but restoration, not agitation but adjustment, not surgery but serenity, not the dramatic but the dispassionate, not experiment... | |
 | John Milton Cooper - 1990 - 438 sivua
...his basic campaign theme and added a new word to English usage. "America's greatest need," he avowed, "is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy;...but restoration; . . . not surgery; but serenity." In his speeches Harding often called for "normalcy," which prompted HL Mencken, in a pun on Harding's... | |
 | Frank Freidel - 1998 - 98 sivua
...TWENTY-NINTH PRESIDENT 1921-1923 BEFORE his nomination. Warren G. Harding declared, "America's present need is not heroics, but healing: not nostrums, but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration: not agitation, but adjustment: not surgery, but serenity: not the dramatic, but the dispassionate; not... | |
 | Marshall Terry - 1996 - 238 sivua
...terrible war, a healer. "America's need," he had intoned in that peculiar alliterating style of his, "is not heroics but healing, not nostrums but normalcy, not revolution but restoration, not agitation but adjustment, not surgery but serenity ..." Harding was using Marcus' own metaphors, though... | |
 | Frederick Lewis Allen - 1997 - 308 sivua
...at the same time had unwittingly added a new word to the language, when he said, "America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but...revolution but restoration; ... not surgery but serenity." Here was a man whom a country wearied of moral obligations and the hope of the world could take to... | |
 | Allan Metcalf, David K. Barnhart - 1999 - 326 sivua
...World War, Harding said on the campaign trail, it was time to get back to normal: "America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration." He repeated the word in his inaugural address the next year: "Our supreme task is the resumption of... | |
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