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...teach him slow," Goldman says, "because I want him to feel natural." The fidgetless calm of Rocky's conversation, the buoyancy of his step and the rippling muscularity of his workouts bespeak an unclouded mind in a body sound as brick...
...began with Adlai Stevenson's written reply to a question posed by the Oregon Journal: "Can Stevenson really clean up the mess in Washington?" The reply, published in the Journal, read: "As to whether I can clean up the mess in Washington, I would bespeak the careful scrutiny of what I inherited in Illinois and what has been accomplished in three years . . . I can only give my best, with ruthless objectivity...
Hebrew Union's new president" is no dogmatist in theology: "I am more interested in hearts than in hats or ham," he says. "As never before, mankind needs pioneers of the spirit. . . . The sense and hope of survival for us and mankind bespeak and demand an all-enveloping passion on our part for the principles and precepts of ... an American Judaism, strengthening and being strengthened by the aims ... of the colonial fathers who called this country 'the new Jerusalem...
...bespeak a healthy fear, the fear that comes from a frank facing of the worst that is in the present and a fair appraisal of the consequences to which it could bind the future. The fear which was unashamedly felt by men now at Harvard when they faced visible and invisible death on ships, in planes and in foxholes; the fear that they went out, grimly and with little joy, to meet and master...
...newspapers and magazines, which reach a Hearst-sized audience of over 8,000,000, bespeak the Church's mind more directly and potently than any other religious press. Since the Spanish Civil War, when it was credited with putting across the Church's campaign to keep the embargo against arms to the Republic, the Catholic press in general has been strongly isolationist...