Word: dynamisme
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Fortunately for the Philippines, a hero arrived in the form of Ramon Magsaysay, a tall (5 ft. 11 in.), tough blacksmith's son from Zambales province, who took over as Defense Secretary in 1950. A principal backer in the Cabinet reshuffle: Freshman Congressman Ferdinand Marcos. Magsaysay tackled the Huks with...
Now, thanks to Marcel Duchamp, the surviving brother, the work has finally been cast in full scale-some 1,155 lbs. of bronze bulking 5 ft. tall-and is currently on view in Paris' Galerie Louis Carré. The gallery has wisely fulfilled the sculpture's kinetic dynamism...
John D. Rockefeller Sr. was a Baptist of conventional piety, hardly the sort of man to launch a religious insurrection. Without intending to, he did. As the price for bankrolling the founding of the University of Chicago in 1890, he insisted that Chicago's struggling, sectarian Baptist Seminary become...
If he could, Lacouture would quite probably remain personally detached from America's internal squabbles over Vietnam. He's an observer not a combatant, and he feels uncomfortable if forced into the fray. So long as his name is only in the by-line, Lacouture is a forceful and persuasive...
Garaudy views history with a certain kind of Europe-centered myopia. Ignoring the dynamism of Western democracy, he insists that the two major forces in the world today are Christianity and Communism, and that they must work together to prevent the destruction of mankind in nuclear war. "It would be...