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...Talk. The brisk and blunt Litchfield, 51, came to Pitt ten years ago, after serving as an aide to General Lucius Clay in postwar Germany and as dean of the graduate school of business and public administration at Cornell. His selection was engineered by the late Alan Magee Scaife, millionaire industrialist, president of the Pitt Board of Trustees and brother-in-law of Financier Richard King Mellon. Scaife died...
...home offices and such business schools as Harvard and Stanford, the European executives can comfortably speak the jargon of U.S. business ("parameters," "public relations," "cost control"), but they switch on their local dialects to good advantage when dealing with customers, competitors or labor leaders. Their mere presence helps to blunt occasional arguments from rivals that the government should not give contracts to U.S.-owned firms. Says Gulf Oil's Italian Chief, Prince Nicolo Pignatelli: "If you want to shoot a lion, you had better take along somebody who understands lions. Otherwise, the lion...
McDivitt swung Gemini 4 around so that it was flying blunt end forward...
Hitler's orders were blunt: if Paris could not be defended against the onrushing Allied armies, it was to be destroyed. The bridges of the Seine, Notre Dame, the Arc de Triomphe, the Louvre, even the Eiffel Tower, were to be blasted to oblivion. The conquerors were to find that, in its dying gasp, the Thousand-Year Reich had leveled a thousand years of Western history's most treasured monuments, leaving Paris, in Hitler's words, "nothing but a blackened field of ruins...
...This Fellow. The blunt modern quality of the translation has delighted many Catholics but shocked others, and the correspondence columns of diocesan newspapers have recently been filled with letters about the version. "I haven't met anybody who has liked it," says Msgr. Charles Finn, pastor of Boston's Holy Name Church, and Bishop Robert J. Dwyer of Reno complains that the translation reduces "language to its lowest common denominator of intelligibility." Some critics saw an implied denial of Christ's divinity in the Confraternity phrasing of Matthew 28:6: the two women at Jesus' tomb...