Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year to study sociology. His biggest problem: Moslem competition. Says he: "Both African and Asian Moslems in the diocese accumulate wealth and slowly extend their influence. Their wealth, plus polygamy, enables them to win many young Catholic girls." Bishop Kiwanuka's second biggest problem: African nationalism, which is apt to view Christianity as a white man's weapon. The nationalist Bataka Party has sponsored an organized reversion to tribal forms of worship. Under Bishop Kiwanuka's leadership, 62,503 converts have joined his flock. "Even the young girls seduced into Moslem homes usually cling to their Catholic...
...just as much from the beach as they can inside the base. If we could have them inside, we could give them the straight dope on just how the firing went, and stop them guessing. Their guesses are pretty wild sometimes, and what comes out in the papers is apt to be more damaging to security than the truth. A LIFE photographer [Stan Wayman] awhile back zeroed in so close on an Atlas you could almost see the rivets on it. If we had photographers on the base, they could develop their film right here and submit it for clearance...
...Airman Norstad makes nothing of either time or space in the pursuit of NATO business. "There is a sort of Roman aspect about Norstad," says André de Staercke, permanent Belgian representative on the NATO Council. "There are no borders for this man. Any morning he is apt to say: 'We will be in Ankara at 8 o'clock tonight.' " Often such flying trips serve primarily as valuable propaganda for NATO; sometimes they herald a new departure in the defense of Europe. A few months ago in Italy Norstad moved an audience to tears by declaring: "There...
...With apt and expressive detail, Inge has set his scene and animated it. Helped by extremely good acting, Director Elia Kazan has given the play a full-bodied, full-businessed stage life. A moment is tense, a scene is touching, the author obviously cares, the general effect is thoroughly his own. Yet the general effect has a somewhat ploppy, India-rubberlike impact. Playwright Inge's most definitive quality-his feeling for human lostness-becomes a little too insistent. It does not emerge from the characters; it tends, instead, to shape them. In the circumstances, the play's very...
...pressure of the faculty." And another has exclaimed: "The astounded college awoke. Gossip carried the news of the revived CRIMSON throughout the student body and town. Men who had never read the paper took fresh interest. Well! ...Hm! ...Well! Well!... So the dead have arisen! ...Say, that's an apt bit, and this is a scathing comment, if I may say so--have you read...