Word: blunting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That Word Liberty. Each Pope, as he receives the triple tiara at his coronation, is reminded: "Thou art the father of princes and of kings, Pontiff of the whole world." Far more than shrewd, blunt Pius XI, or ascetic, aristocratic Pius XII, Pope John did seem like a universal father, and his teaching voice reached not only 558 million Roman Catholics but all men. Two of his encyclicals may rank as classics, and they caught the imagination of many outside John's church. In Mater et Magistra (1961), he brought up to date the tradition of Catholic social teaching...
...John F. Kennedy's main contribution to business confidence has been his new attitude toward business. After his blunt attack on the steel industry last year, he has taken pains to avoid further offense, and pleased businessmen by his restraint in not interfering with the new price rise by steel in April. The businessman's new attitude toward the President is summed up by Monroe Jackson Rathbone. 63, a chemical engineer who followed his father into a job at Standard Oil (New Jersey) and rose to become president of the $10 billion-a-year company. "President Kennedy...
These new Christian cells meet almost never on Sunday and rarely in church. In Chicago's Loop, there are three groups of business executives who meet monthly for lunch, prayer, and blunt, secret discussions of how Christian ethics apply to their office lives. Both the Senate and House of Representatives have groups of Congressmen who meet once a week for a prayer breakfast; so has Texas' House of Representatives. The thousands who belong to the cells of the Roman Catholic Christian Family Movement meet weekly for their discussions and Bible study in one another's houses...
...slogans Kerciu quotes are blunt. "A good nigger is a dead nigger," one reads. Beside it is printed: "WOULD YOU WANT YOUR SISTER TO MARRY ONE." Beneath this appears: "Impeach JFK," "Back Ross," and Yankee go home." Near the slogans are the names of the Segregationist Citizens Council, and the Patriotic Youth of America...
...years as a civil servant. The time for a national election drew nigh, and Tory Howard Green, who eventually followed Pearson as External Affairs Secretary, accused him of "knifing Canada's best friends in the back" over Suez. That was the first taste that Pearson had of the blunt world of politics. Within six weeks after the Nobel award, the high point of his life turned into...