Word: dourness
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...tremendously pleased to see the picture of my father, Representative Howard W. Smith of Va., on the cover of TIME [Feb. 2]. However, I am weary of the same old adjectives used to describe this wonderful, complex man. "Dour," "doleful," "lanky," "bushy-browed," "wintry-eyed," and sometimes worse! I think it's time the public knew the other side of Howard Smith's nature...
...leader to be TIME'S Man of the Year. Since then, Africa has been making history on its own, awakening the rest of the world to Africa's own awakening. TIME cover stories illustrate the way the story has developed. In 1952 there was Daniel Malan, the dour Boer Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa, who died last week, out to keep what he regarded as the inferior black majority of his countrymen in permanent subjection. After him came the face of Black Africa nationalism- Ghana's Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah...
...atomic warfare, the problems of Christians in non-Christian countries), "provided that the Vatican is willing to admit and accept dogmatic differences." In Britain the Archbishop of Canterbury indicated that the Anglican Church would send an observer, if invited, but a spokesman for the Presbyterian Church of Scotland was dour. "We are very keen on the ecumenical movement," he said, "but not under Roman Catholic sponsorship. We want a union of Christendom, but not on their terms...
...parliamentarian, began compiling his monumental Procedure and Precedents, by which the House still does business. In 1922 Cannon was elected to the House from Speaker Clark's old district, Missouri's Ninth ("The Bloody Ninth"), which sprawls across 24 northeastern counties and includes Mark Twain's Hannibal. As the dour guardian of the House's power of the purse. Cannon fights an unending battle. "We've got to keep people from taking more and more money out of the U.S. Treasury," he cries. "Every day they devise a thousand new ways...
...countryfolk used to sing: "When next we challenge England, we'll beat her in the fight, and we'll crown De Valera king of Ireland." But Dev himself made Ireland a republic. But for 21 of the last 27 years the inflexible ex-rebel, whose dour personality probably owes more to his Spanish father than his Irish mother, has been Ireland's Prime Minister or Taoiseach (pronounced tea-shock). A man of homely analogies, naive honesty and unbudgeable stubbornness, New York-born De Valera dominated Irish politics...