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...solve its own problems according to its own traditions and ideals." In perhaps his most optimistic assessment of world affairs since taking office, Kennedy expressed confidence that these nations will choose freedom, not Communism, and that "no one can doubt that the wave of the future is not the conquest of the world by a single dogmatic creed but the liberation of the diverse energies of free nations and free...
...little dog. To conceal such defects, Director Minnelli pours on the martial music and the Metrocolor. When war is declared, the screen turns such a bright blood red that for about half an hour afterward everything looks green. And the Four Horsemen-the Biblical war, pestilence, death and conquest-gallop across the sky at intervals like a belly-clenching commercial for stomach pills...
Ever since the Reformation put new emphasis upon the authority of Scripture, the pulpit has been the pride of Protestantism. Nowhere has this pride been more evident than in the U.S., where sermon-centered churches-notably the Baptists and Methodists-flourished with the conquest of the frontier, and such preachers as Henry Ward Beecher and Dwight Lyman Moody became as famous as Presidents, and perhaps as influential...
...catalyze these dark musings, not to commemorate the players, that Stacton restages the old battles. Not surprisingly, his novels lack the painted scenery and speeches in all-purpose King James dialect that clutter other historical fiction. In A Signal Victory, the ironically titled tale of the Spanish conquest of the Maya civilization, there is not a line of dialogue. The book's most vivid presence is that of Author Stacton, brooding in mordant aphorisms about the uses of power. Everything is stated in epigrams, and he can drop the material for an evening's argument into an apparently...
Harvard's varsity wrestling squad made up for a generally disappointing season with a tense 15-14 conquest of Yale last Saturday in the LAB. As usual, most of the Harvard strength was in the middle weights, where Bill Smith, Bob Kolodney, and Fred Pereira came through with three consecutive victories...