Word: eared
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...countries represented at the Vatican today-among them the Moslem United Arab Republic and Communist Cuba-find the papal corridors not only a valuable listening station but a strategic position to catch the ear of the leader of 614 million Roman Catholics. The U.S. has not had a man on the spot since 1950, when Myron C. Taylor, President Roosevelt's personal representative to the Holy See, retired. Last week, with the arrival of Henry Cabot Lodge in Rome, official relations with the papacy were resumed-at least in part...
Useful Intelligence. Whatever the semantic distinctions involved, Lodge's unannounced function seems clear enough. Not only will he be able to keep an ear cocked for the useful intelligence that passes through the Holy See, but -more important, perhaps-he can tip the U.S. to any impending Vatican moves in such sensitive areas as Third World development and international peace. Conceivably, the Vatican might also help Washington find answers to some of the U.S.'s most troublesome problems, such as peace in Viet Nam and the fate of U.S. prisoners there...
...church tower, theme of the artist's Church Bells Ringing, Rainy Winter Night. That church tower was a masterpiece of Victorian gimcrackery. It was so downright, honestly ugly that, like George Arliss, it was positively beautiful. The sound of its bell, to paraphrase Poe, was "In the startled ear of night/ How it screamed out its affright!" I think that old tower perhaps may have had a soul, and Burchfield, like William Blake, was able to commune with such spirits...
Joseph Maher plays the vile braggart Parolles very close to farce. Dressed in hideous patchwork garb with a ring in his left ear, he exaggerates his hat flourishes, sticks himself with his sword, and at one point makes his exit like a javelin-thrower in slow motion. But why must he change Shakespeare's "an idle lord" to "a foolish lord"? Once started, there is no end to such idle tinkering...
...have to do this at all?" and "Why can't the states do this?" [June 8]. For 25 years we have seen the Federal Government assume functions it was never created to perform. At last there's a man close to a President's ear who is posing the absolutely essential query in a Government that's supposed to be limited...