Word: bravely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...society where controlled machines descrate even Star Spangled Banner he request that the audience stand and, without companiment, sing the anthem's verse. "Think particularly," he "of the last lines: 'O say does that Spangled Banner still wave o'er land of the free and the home of brave." For a few minutes this dressed man, his seasick-green and red socks eminently his left hand moving up and down to control the collective voice, 5,000--including a state governor, participant in the Manhattan and an outstanding social thinker chorusing the first verse of their them...
...American Protestants have staged their own Inquisition, Texas style, Houston 1960: about 300 brave, "patriotic" Protestant ministers ganged up on one lone Catholic, Senator Kennedy. Bravo, America! What grist for the mill, presented on a silver platter to Mr. Khrushchev on his arrival...
...Sons and Lovers theme, stars Jason Robards Jr.; The Tenth Man mixes modern psychology and ancient rite in Playwright Paddy Chayefsky's tale about a Jewish girl possessed by an evil spirit; The Miracle Worker, with brilliant performances by Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke, dramatizes the brave, difficult relationship between blind and deaf-mute Helen Keller as a child and her teacher, Annie Sullivan; The Best Man, though superficial in characterization, provides a vivid theatrical look at campaigning politicians. Three musicals remain spicy and satisfying: West Side Story, Leonard Bernstein's brassy, big-city, 20th century Romeo...
...board, had pounded it home. "This is the only thing we can do," said he all over town. "Any violence over it will only hurt us in the future." Even the Citizens' Council agreed. As one Pine Bluffer put it: "It's awful hard to be a brave fighter when your opponent is a six-year-old girl...
Rack or Galleys. They had brave days to remember. There are only 1,000,000 French Protestants in a nation of 43 million today, but in 1560 there were 4,000,-ooo of them in a population of 16 million. For nearly 40 years the two faiths were embroiled in bloody conflict, symbolized by the infamous St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre of August 1572, during which perhaps as many as 10,000 Huguenots were murdered. The Edict of Nantes (1598) gave France's Protestants freedom of worship and academic and political rights, but by 1661 the Roman Catholic...