Word: brushoffs
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...This brushoff did not prevent the rest of Orthodoxy from making some notable ecumenical decisions. During a four-hour Divine Liturgy celebrated at Rhodes's Annunciation Cathedral last week, 23 metropolitans and bishops signed an agreement that one of them called "the greatest spiritual fact of our century." Ten Orthodox churches -including the ancient patriarchates of Moscow, Constantinople, Antioch, Jerusalem and Alexandria-agreed to begin a "dialogue" with Rome on the subject of Christian unity, provided that the Pope will speak with them "on equal terms." Athenagoras will supervise a new secretariat that will arrange for any formal doctrinal...
...Gaulle's most prominent foe. ex-Premier Georges Bidault, now a ranking S.A.O. chieftain, was as publicly defiant as ever. He could afford to be, for he was now holed up in southern Germany, where, after a nervous brushoff by Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, he sought political asylum from the state of Bavaria. Bathed in publicity and surrounded by police, he obviously was not doing his resistance organization much concrete good in a distant German villa...
...Sartre masterfully explained to Simone, ''is an essential love." But, he added prudently, ""it is a good idea for us also to experience contingent love affairs." Many an ordinary girl, even in France, might have missed the philosophical subtlety of this pronouncement and taken it for a brushoff...
...private that even West Germany's Foreign Minister Gerhard Schröder was kept mostly in the dark about what went on. After one of Adenauer's meetings with Kennedy, Schröder approached the Chancellor to ask what the talk had been about, got a frosty brushoff. "My dear fellow," said Adenauer, "it was a private conversation. If I told you, it would no longer be private...
Even his private advisers urged him to lay off. His Foreign Minister, Heinrich von Brentano, flatly contradicted his remarks on Geneva. Maddest of all, Ludwig Erhard demanded a public apology, but all he got from the Chancellor was a grudging brushoff. "Honorable Herr Erhard." wrote Adenauer in a personal letter, "I am of the opinion that we must not offer a spectacle of dispute to the public. Therefore, I do not intend to reply to your arguments." Bowing to pleas of party conciliators, he added: "You know I attach the greatest importance to further harmonious collaboration with you." But that...