Word: documenting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Author Aguilera Malta, a noted Ecuadorian writer, was able to draw on the best possible source for this historical novel: Manuela herself. In addition to her other activities, she was the official archivist for Bolívar's army, and her records document much of the tragedy, trivia and triumph that accompanied the 14-year battle to drive the godos (Spaniards) out of Latin America...
...inability to document claims of extreme age helps establish a useful outer limit for doctors who deal with the aged-and in no way detracts from the charm of such local characters as Charlie Smith and Sylvester Magee, another former slave from Hattiesburg, Miss., who claimed to be celebrating his 126th birthday last May 29. Magee's eyes are bright and alert, his face marvelously expressive, and until four years ago he was still working in the cotton fields. His recollections of life as a slave and of his later service in the Union Army are remarkably detailed...
Slight faults might be found with the Book of Confessions. One is the absence of any document out of the Lutheran tradition. Heidelberg is German Reformed (1563) and Barmen is German (1934), but one of Luther's catechisms would have been helpful. A second is that no witnesses are included from the continents of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Perhaps a supplemental book with representative liturgies, statements, or documents from non-confessional churches could be put together...
...seniority.*The Powell case prompted creation of a House ethics committee, which is also supposed to formulate a code of conduct. Mansfield thinks that "the Senate must go ahead on its own. Let the House tend to its own business." Republican Leader Everett Dirksen believes a common document should cover both Houses...
Epstein charges that the original document was filled with dozens of historical inaccuracies as well as many tasteless references to Johnson...