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...blazed away. Nichols: "I shall never be guilty of painting in the style or viewpoint of Terence Duren. Never! Never!" Duren: "It is easy to recognize that Mr. Nichols cannot draw people . . . save at the safe distance at which he conceals all lack of knowledge of anatomical detail. I concur heartily: Mr. Nichols will never draw or paint like I do. Never...
Though the intellectuals of 18th Century England mapped out an Age of Reason, God did not altogether concur in their plan. He continued to turn out many odd and upsetting creatures-parsons who were hanged, poets who went mad, lords who started riots, scholars who drank ink, dukes who lost ancestral estates on a throw of the dice. Or, if a man of reason appeared, he might be almost too rational : Admiral Byng, on the morning of his execution, blandly "took his usual draught for the scurvy...
...Harry Truman is the 32nd or 33rd President is, in the absence of any final authority, up to Mr. Truman. He has decided that he is the 32nd President of the U.S. The Congressional Directory, Senate Manual, and the numbered nameplates on the Presidential portraits in the White House concur with...
...seven members are sufficient. In the preliminary stages of serious inquiry, even at the point of deciding whether a given situation "is in fact likely" to endanger peace, a Big-Power member directly involved in an issue cannot vote at all. But the other four Big Powers must concur in any vote to investigate or take even preliminary action. At the all-important point of determining whether a threat actually exists, and from then on to positive action, the Council can make a decision only if all five of the Big Powers and two of the smaller members agree...
...charged that the Rockefeller statements "declare that baptism is unnecessary to church membership and that the Lord's Supper, although termed 'a sacrament,' is a symbol whose beauty is not always expedient. . . . The New Testament, the Creed and the agelong practice of the church do not concur with Mr. Rockefeller's evaluation. . . . The church [should] withdraw from the Federal Council, if the Council maintains and does not repudiate its seeming approval...