Word: exhorter
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...Pope added: "We will continue to denounce unjust economic inequalities between rich and poor. We exhort all the governments of Latin America and also those of other countries, as well as the managerial and well-to-do classes, to persevere in facing the reforms necessary for a more just and efficient social arrangement." Facing up to Latin America's social ills, Paul declared, demands "progressive advantage for the classes today less favored and fairer imposition of the fiscal burden on the more well-to-do classes, especially upon those who own vast estates and on those classes who, with...
...Tell it like it is," her listeners exhort, on their feet, clapping and cheering. She goes into a "holiness shout"-a writhing dance derived from gospel services, all the while singing over the tumult. This is why her admirers call her Lady Soul...
...staged the Lincoln Center production of Galileo (TIME, April 21), has had a few galvanic inspirations. Abandoning the customary fencing-match armies, he fills the stage with metalclad soldiers who move like ponderous impersonal relentless brigades of tanks. On two levels of the stage, Richard and his enemy Richmond exhort their armies in a frenzied propaganda barrage that seems to unkennel all the yelping dogs...
...Though Eastern Europe continues to hymn the glories of "worker" states and exhort its able-bodied to "work together to build a better life under socialism," the unsocialist truth is that its workers have become just about the world's biggest goof-offs. In Rumania, they cost industry $75 million in wasted time during the first four months of this year. Bulgaria lost 25 million man-days last year because of absenteeism. When Polish factory workers show up at all, says the Communist trade-union paper Glos Pracy, they "work only about 70% of their normal eight-hour...
...Voyez-vous, rnon enfant," he would exhort a student. "Drawing is the first virtue of a painter. It is the foundation, it is everything: a thing well drawn is always well enough painted." Ingres followed his own advice. His earliest drawing (of a head) was made in 1789, when he was nine. By the time he was 17, he was a pupil in the Paris studio of Napoleon's court painter, Jacques-Louis David, and was contributing sketches for David's Mme. Récamier...