Word: bring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...president, who dropped by
the White House with four young, eager U.S. politicians (Young
Republicans' Chairman John Ashbrook and Treasurer Fred Dixon; Young
Democrats' President Nelson Lancione and First Vice President Richard
L. Crawford) who are on their way to a Paris convention next month.
Object: to bring future political leaders of the NATO countries face to
face while they are still in their intellectually formative years.
Beamed Ike: "Splendid idea."
With Parliament under control-it went on a four-month "vacation" the following day-De Gaulle faced to the most overriding threat to public order: the continued defiance from Algiers. For four days, both in Paris and Algeria, he maneuvered endlessly to bring the 500,000 soldiers and 1,000,000 European civilians in Algeria back under the authority of the central government. (The general's only nonofficial appointment during this period: a brief chat with naval Lieut. Commander Philippe de Gaulle, *a gangling carbon copy of the Charles de Gaulle of 30 years ago.) By a virtuoso...
...disks available in the U.S. do him scant justice (with the notable exception of some fine Schumann playing he has done for the Decca and Monitor labels). Nevertheless, for most Westerners, recordings will probably remain the only clue to Richter's art. Although Conductor Ormandy would like to bring him to the U.S., there is no sign yet that Russia is ready to send its finest pianist into the world...
Citation: "As president of two universities, you had the patience of Job, the endurance of Samson, the wit of Puck, and the virtue Caesar's wife had not. All these qualities . . . you will bring to ... the baffled world of diplomacy, where good humor and a clear mind are more effective than legalism and ceremony...
...Gleason, S.J., investigates Satan's kingdom in the light of modern thought. Says Theologian Gleason: "A combination of sentimentality, secular humanism and determinism have produced their own bitter fruit ... It is no longer generally believed, to put the matter bluntly, that man is capable of choices that could bring him to eternal death." There is the additional difficulty of specific references to fire. "To many it appears that for God to plunge the soul into a sea of fire [suggests] a vindictive God who takes joy in torturing His enemies...