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...most beautiful churches are pure Gothic, and many of the least beautiful are latter-day imitation Gothic. Even in the functional-minded mid-20th century, few architects have tried to break the mold, and only a rare few have had any success at it. One of the boldest tries is Joseph D. Murphy's gymnasium-like St. Ann's Catholic Church in Normandy...
...March 1952, Brownell flew to Paris, talked with Ike, flew home the next night and agreed to take strategic command of Ike's campaign for the nomination. His boldest stroke: seizing on the Taft "steal" of delegate votes in Texas as a weapon to break the power of the Taft forces in the convention. Worked as an Eisenhower troubleshooter during the election campaign, but principally in New York, to avoid rousing the ire of Midwestern Taftmen...
...Communists (a smaller group proportionally than those in France or Italy) were on the point of launching a full-blown Czech-type coupled by Minister of the Interior Leino, Finland's government fired the treacherous minister and ruthlessly purged all Reds from his police force. It was the boldest anti-Red gesture made by any free country in Europe since the war, but Moscow said not a word...
Calmness & Assurance. Over the years, Iowa and its ten colleges have climbed to high rank in the Midwest. More important, the university, under Hancher, is one of the boldest crusaders against the vocationalism that plagues U.S. state universities. "Somewhere," Hancher tells his students, "the art of contemplation has been lost...An occasional mystic or band of mystics have preserved the art . . . They possess an integrity, a calm and assurance, a wholeness of mind and body that is a kind of holiness. This wholeness, this holiness, I crave...
...tenderness and intensity that may surprise even her warmest fans. In a film of less uniform excellence, Shelley Winters' mousy factory girl would completely steal the show. Shy, petulant, or shrilly nagging by turns, she makes the most of her unconventional role and of the movie's boldest scene, when she gropes, on a choked-up brink of tears, for a tactful way to ask a doctor for an abortion...