Word: bread
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great contralto Marian Anderson balances Schubert and Brahms with Negro spirituals. But Jennie Tourel sings exhaustive programs in seven languages (English, French, German, Russian, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese), and three vocal ranges (soprano, mezzo-soprano, contralto). Says she: "[The audiences] understand that it's not everyday's bread what...
They had broken bread together at the White House, but the meal didn't make them friends. Winston Churchill had obviously had little use for the how-to-win-the-war ideas of Author Louis Adamic. And five years later, when Adamic published his Dinner at the White House, a between-courses sizeup of the President and the Prime Minister (TIME, Sept. 2). he garnished it with anti-Churchill references. Churchill sued for libel, citing a footnote on page 151 of Dinner...
...truly believe in God in Christ, then worship becomes no conventional act of outward respectability, but the very bread of life. . . . If we truly believe, then brotherhood becomes more than a slogan. ... If we really believe, then Christian discipleship, the mission of the church, are not inconsequential asides or the task of peculiar people. They are the absorbing responsibility and opportunity of every member of the church...
Later, Saragat's and Matteotti's rebels joined forces in an "Anti-Congress," held in the magnificent, 17th Century Palazzo Barberini (former residence of U.S. Ambassador Alexander C. Kirk). The most important catch of the Nenni Socialists was Novelist Ignazio Silone (Bread and Wine), who has long opposed fusion with the Communists, but apparently could not bring him,self to split with his old party. Saragat succinctly summed up his own reasons for splitting: "I would infinitely prefer to side with our Socialist Comrade Attlee than with Comrade Tito." Said Nenni: "What has happened is an episode...
...Guessing. Caniff's house on Tor Ridge, a spectacular modern affair-designed and owned by Neighbor Henry Varnum Poor, was a port of call for scores of flyers during the war. The tabletalk kept Caniff abreast of servicemen's slang; the grateful flyers paid their bread-&-butter calls by buzzing the house. As a favor, the Army flew him across the U.S. in a jolting 6-24, to give him the feel of it. He can "still hear the nyaaa-aaaa-aaaa of those motors-and feel the cold, going on hour after hour. Jeez, it was cold...