Word: befriending
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...Corbusier's first work in North America should not "jar" our world. Is our architectural world too small for this masterpiece of form? The building is designed according to man's own figure is even comforting for those willing to befriend it. For this building, unlike most others, has the humaneness of a friend. John Paul Russo...
...torrent of events, old relationships were being reversed, old positions abandoned, old ideas discarded. Here was India, under savage assault from the Communist giant it had sought to befriend, unaided by the neutralist nations it had led ("Where was Sukarno? Where was Nasser? Where was Tito?" asked a disillusioned Indian diplomat). And here was India, the unaligned, seeking and receiving help from the Western powers it had scorned. Here, at the same time, was neighboring Pakistan, long one of the U.S.'s staunchest friends, threatening to turn to a policy of "positive independence," and sending Foreign Minister Mohammed...
...enough, at 17, to question the judge's values without having any clear-cut standards of his own. He is at the testing age. He tests his bravery soloing a plane and his manhood with a prostitute. But the test of his humanity comes when he tries to befriend a fellow teen-ager named Sherman Pew. Sherman is a blue-eyed Negro orphan who was found in a church pew. He is as wary as a porcupine and just about as tactful. In odd moments of disarming color-blind candor, Sherman and Jester are as glowingly close...
...Vellucci does not hate Harvard. In fact, the out-spoken City Councilor from East Cambridge thinks it's a pretty good thing. Like those Cubans who would like to befriend the Norteamericanos, but strongly dislike the policies of the "Yankee government," Vellucci respects the University, but not the Massachusetts Hall approach to Cambridge problems: "I don't think there is anything wrong with Harvard University. It is something we like we talk about when we are out of state, or when we drive through with out-of-staters. There is a fine student body--the best in the world...
...struggle for uncommitted countries is going on now, on political, social, and economic grounds," Aiken said and the next President will have task of trying to win the developing nations of the world. Still, "all we can do to befriend foreign countries will be to no avail if we do not maintain sufficient strength in this country to fight off nations wishing to destroy us and our form of government," he contended...