Word: faithfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...NLRB, which is supposed to ensure that unions and management behave with some semblance of civility toward each other, said it would seek the injunction unless Stevens makes good-faith attempts to settle pending unfair-labor-practice suits against six of its plants. At those plants, the Government body has found that Stevens "discharged, reprimanded, harassed and disciplined employees in reprisal for support of a union [and] coercively interrogated employees concerning union activity." Why a national rather than a local injunction? Said the NLRB: "Given the employer's past history and given the evidence that its unfair labor practices...
Gentleman and scholar, diplomat and master painter, Peter Paul Rubens was that rare artist, at home with himself and his society. His orchestrations of the Christian, the mythic and the historical have endured as voluptuous celebrations of human passion and faith. Marking the 400th anniversary of his birth, Rubens by Frans Baudouin (Abrams; 405 pages; $60) pays rich tribute to the Flemish master with a gallery of 278 illustrations and a meticulous text tracing his stylistic development and the temper of his times...
Much of Velva still clings to Sevareid -his wheatfield-flat monotone, his Scandinavian ponderousness, his Midwestern faith that folks can get along if they listen to each other, and especially his chapbook belief in America's innate strengths. "No other great power has the confidence and stability to expose and face its own blunders," he wrote last year in a new introduction to his 1946 autobiography, Not So Wild a Dream. "We are a turbulent society but a stable republic. The mind goes blank at the thought of a world without one such power...
...businesses to make larger sacrifices and from the left for Vice-President Mondale's ill-advised interference in the filibuster designed to block efforts to raise the ceiling on natural gas prices--an effort the administration also opposed. That this bickering and confusion have caused the administration to lose faith in its ability to work with a feisty Congress was shown in a remark by energy chief James R. Schlesinger '50 to the effect that the administration would be willing to compromise still further by giving increased tax credits to industries that convert to coal, returning a larger portion...
Each night, members of the group perform a candle lighting ceremony in the dining hall, and post a Swahili motto commemorating one of seven principles, such as "unity," "faith" and "self-determination" on a mammoth sign on the dining room wall...