Word: belief
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vice versa. "Standard Oil of N.J. and the Catholic Church are both producers," says retired Banker Martindell. "Standard Oil produces oil and the church produces a way of life and a way of thought, but they both have production problems. Take a missionary-it's my belief that a man who practices good management will probably save more souls than a man who doesn't.'' So, in December 1948, with the astonished acquiescence of the Vatican, Episcopalian Martindell had an audience with the Pope and went to work...
...Bach Cantata lithographs from these early years reveal the characteristic features of Kokoschka's style. They are animated and mysterious, expressing the artist's belief that "man is a magical thing, full of magical powers." Every line has meaning--the intersecting lines of force and the curling gestures create a mood of tension. A self-portrait in this series, similar to one owned by the Museum of Modern Art, shows Kokoschka pointing to his chest. He considers this portrait prophetic, since he was wounded in this spot a few years later during the first World...
Lausche was first asked* why he is not running again for governor. Said he: "My belief is that I could have been elected a sixth time. I want to tell you frankly, however, that I would have felt embarrassed to go to the voters and ask them to vote for me on six separate occasions.'' Does Lausche plan to seek presidential delegate votes outside Ohio? "I know my limitations, and I want to say to you that I am not going to look to the stars, grasping into the limitless space while my feet are stumbling...
...strategy the South uses, it has now confronted the country with a major legal issue. Is the U.S. Constitution, as Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes put it, "what the judges say it is"? Or is it what it was when the states first ratified it in the generally accepted belief that it reserved to them their full "local rights...
With its striding rages and vivid madness, Welles's Lear scarcely buttressed the widespread belief that the part is unactable; even with an injured ankle, Welles was never a mere "old gentleman tottering about with a walking stick." But both as actor and director, Welles slighted Lear's character and Lear's significance, did far too little with Shakespeare's poetry. Any number of moments lacked their sovereign power to move-and not least from scanting Shakespeare's sovereign powers of language...