Word: absently
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grounds: Louw's speech had been "offensive, fictitious and erroneous." Precipitately, a ballot was taken and the motion carried by 67 votes to South Africa's 1, with 20 delegates abstaining and 9 (including the U.S.) "not participating" in the vote at all. Adlai Stevenson, who was absent, later lamely explained the U.S. position: while disagreeing with South Africa's apartheid policy, the U.S. upholds every speaker's right to be heard...
...brothers. The elder (Robert Shaw) has been in a mental institution, and between long silences he constructs his thoughts with the meticulous intensity of a child building a tower of blocks; the younger (Alan Bates) is a tradesman who only occasionally visits the room. In a gesture of almost absent-minded Samaritanism, the elder brother invites an old tramp to share his quarters...
...Absent Eminences. Its immediate purpose was to prepare an agenda for another meeting, which would in turn prepare an agenda for a full-dress synod-the first in more than ten centuries. At this synod, the patriarchs themselves will make canon law on such matters as litur gical revisions, calendar reform, theological minutiae, and relations between the churches. Thus the patriarchs themselves stayed away from Rhodes; the conference was presided over by venerable Chrysostom, 81, Metropolitan of Neapolis, Thasos and Philippi, and was actually run by an Athenagoras protégé-slim, black-bearded and also named Chrysostom...
Besides Athenagoras, two other absent eminences dominated the deliberations. One was Pope John XXIII, whose nine years' residence in Istanbul as apostolic delegate has made him exceptionally knowledgeable about Eastern Orthodoxy and sympathetic to it. The other was Moscow's Patriarch Alexei, represented by Archbishop Nikodemus, 32, the youngest bishop in the Russian Church...
...Time Being is relatively upbeat. No one dies. Yet no one lives, either; like a quarter section of Spoon River Anthology, the human crop is sown with indifference and raised in contumely. It is only because Author Julia Siebel speaks with an oldfashioned, simple authority now almost absent from U.S. fiction that her lugubrious chronicles about doomed small folk deserve to be read...