Word: endeavorment
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Nixon himself, incidentally, is beginning to catch on to the practice. He would like to see an Advisory Council composed of the Americans best qualified to tell the President and the Congress how the government can assist artistic endeavor. Possibly the country will be treated to another four years in which the bizarre philosophy flourishes: 100 experts equal truth, but if the truth they equal is too true to be good, suppress...
...Cheerleader. A few hours later Khrushchev resumed his cheerleading at an attraction more to his liking: a 4½-hour anti-U.S. farrago by Cuba's Fidel Castro. Castro made the first of several hundred misstatements of fact when he declared royally that "we" will "endeavor to be brief." As he speechified on and on, more than half his audience, notably including India's Jawaharlal Nehru, gradually drifted out of the Assembly. But Khrushchev with grim determination hung on, saluted savage Castro blasts at the U.S. by raising his right arm. Each time...
...Immanuel. Disagreeing with those Catholics who "glibly say that Protestantism is emotionalism," Father Weigel insists "it has an intellectuality. It favors scholarship and has always produced it." Scientific exegesis, of scriptural texts has been "mainly a Protestant endeavor." But Protestant intellectualism, according to Father Weigel, is empirical, skeptical, relativistic, qualitatively derived from Kantian philosophy ("Immanuel Kant has rightly been called 'the Protestant Thomas Aquinas' "). Scientifically approached, God, or at least the historical Jesus, becomes "the great unknown." Argues Weigel: "There is here a despair of knowledge." Protestants evade this despair by a leap of faith powered...
...sped down the track of Rome's Olympic Stadium, there was no doubt that she was the fastest woman the world had ever seen. But that was only part of the appeal of the shy, 20-year-old Negro girl from Clarksville, Tenn. In a field of female endeavor in which the greatest stars have often been characterized by overdeveloped muscles and underdeveloped glands, Wilma ("Skeeter") Rudolph had long, lissome legs and a pert charm that caused an admiring Italian press to dub her "the Black Pearl." Last week Wilma Rudolph became the only track star, male or female...
...panelists split on the question of the proper relation between college education and dramatic endeavor. Chapman flatly asserted, "Theatre at a university is an anomaly," while Balch assured, "There is no great difficulty in the co-habitation of the liberal arts and drama...