Word: confirming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eyes," said a contemporary, of Goethe, "looks an angel, out of the other a devil." In Goethe, the elements of passion and discipline were so bafflingly mixed that he could reach the hearts and minds of millions as a poet* and yet, as government official, callously confirm the death sentence of a child-mother convicted of infanticide. "I am not the first," says Mann, "to find [this] almost as shattering as the whole of Faust...
...admit some boners. In the Bay area, parrot-beaked Herb Caen, 31, has a more devoted following than any syndicated columnist, and in the Chronicle he far outdraws Drew Pearson and Billy Rose, the only outsiders Editor Paul Smith prints. Smith has found out what many papers could confirm if they only tried,: a good local column doesn't have to be brilliantly written (Caen's isn't) to outshine all the syndicators that money...
...China. The firm's buying and selling with the whole world seems to have imparted a secret-service atmosphere to the place, and the attendants in their gray coats make sales in nervous whispers, every now and then beckoning the manager to come over and confirm a price, with the low, cryptic words, "One moment, please, Mr. Mueller...
...plan is designed to give UNESCO a chance to confirm graphically its contention that international living and cooperation in our time is a solid possibility and not a damfool dream. One of the projected institutes, for instance, would bring together 20 young people from each country under an international faculty. The difficulties posed by language, ideological, and personal differences could be studied and prescribed for in a way obviously not possible in the heated UN sessions, or in the many cultural areas of the world which are sealed from, and uncomprehending of, each other. the educators hope that a common...
...relic of an older day and an older creed of senatorial seniority and personal privilege, Kenneth McKellar sat, bowed and disconsolate, as his colleagues voted 36-to-31 to confirm Gordon Clapp...