Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...niched security information dressed up with phony letter-like trappings. "I think the oath [of office] towers far above any presidential secrecy directive," McCarthy told McClellan, who rejoined: "I don't know of any oath that any man took for loyalty to his country that required him to commit a crime...
Next to inaccuracy, the Guide warns, the most grievous sin the historian can commit is to write uninterestingly; in the words of Theodore Roosevelt, "He must remember that . . . unless he writes vividly he cannot write truthfully, for no amount of dull pains-taking detail will sum up the whole truth unless the genius is there to paint the truth." To end the "chain reaction of dullness," the essay suggests a thorough study of the classics, and goes on to offer valuable suggestions on combining interest with accuracy...
...newsmen in a U.S. Government office at Bonn, Captain Khokhlov, 31, told why he had failed to MVD CAPTAIN KHOKHLOV (WITH FAMILY) With poison and conscience. carry out his murder assignment. The stated reason was simple enough: "A conflict between Soviet intelligence, which tried to force me to commit criminal acts, and my conscience"; but the facts leading up to it made a story that sounded like a collaboration of Graham Greene and E. Phillips Oppenheim...
...least one oldster was in hearty agreement. "Before I came to this meeting," said a grey-haired widow from Kyoto, "I was planning to commit suicide. Now I have definitely made up my mind to wait a while...
...body of the oratorio is part of the passion given in narrative and dramatic form by five soloists. After the Seven Words--"My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?"--found in Matthew and Mark, we hear the less enigmatic pronouncement from Luke, "Father, into thy hands I commit my spirit!" The music reaches its most sublime level at the end of the narrative portion, ". . . and he bowed his head and gave up his spirit." The influence of the Italian Baroque (for Schuctz studied under Gabrieli) is slightly evident in some striking contrapuntal effects in the ensembles...