Word: dimly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Prospects Dim. Less than a year ago, Strauss's political road seemed clear. The aging Adenauer would soon quit; Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard, a proficient economist but an uncertain politi cian, would not last long as successor; the third Chancellor of the Federal Republic would be the man who had forged the Bundeswehr into NATO's most powerful, most willing European partner...
...church-related colleges for failing to permeate the curriculum with Christian truth. He encourages Biblical-founded preaching; he is a persistent critic of "leftist" thinking in the National Council of Churches and denounces the World Council of Churches as an example of "ecclesiastical elephantiasis." His contributors have taken a dim view of Paul Tillich's religious thought, and Editor Henry claims that the theology of Karl Barth is nullified by its internal contradictions. He is not at all disturbed by Earth's tart reply that C.T. should really be called C.Y. -Christianity Yesterday...
Though the signs outside identified it as a hotel, the Cavendish was no place for the unsuspecting tourist. Most strangers who ventured into the dim, cluttered lobby at 82 Jermyn Street were sternly told to try elsewhere. Others, if they were lucky enough to remind the proprietress of some long-vanished Victorian buck or Bostonian pooh-bah, would be clasped to her shapely bosom and regaled with surrealistic reminiscences about old Lord Droopy Drawers and Lady You-Know-'Oo, or "the time we went to Ireland on roller skates...
...opens her big mouth, shakes a leg, or crosses an eye. Carol Burnett, 29, who last week shared the podium with Julie Andrews in a TV special called Julie and Carol at Carnegie Hall, has a warmth that neither coaxial cable nor gloom of darkened living room can dim. She is even funny away from the camera, despite her demurrer: "I'm never on when...
President-Emeritus James B. was known to take a dim Chicago's approach to athletics...