Word: firmnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...practice of confession has firm Biblical roots; the Epistle of James advises: "Confess your sins to one another, that you may be healed." In the early church, penance was usually a public ritual at which penitents openly disclaimed serious wrongdoings before the assembled congregation. Not until 1215 was confession to a priest made the norm for the church, by the Fourth Lateran Council. According to canon law, Catholics must confess any mortal (serious) sins before receiving Holy Communion, and as a rule they are expected to do so at least once a year...
...late U.S. Sculptor-Welder David Smith or to Britain's Richard Smith, whose shaped canvases won the grand prize at the current Sao Paulo Bienal. -Not all fabricators do such good work. A duplicate of Die was ordered from a Los Angeles firm for last spring's County Museum sculpture survey show, but its surface is badly scratched and, for lack of proper interior bracing, it has an oddly flimsy look...
...oldest (21 years) and by far the largest (annual billings: close to $5,000,000) firm in the trade, Boyden Associates is no body-snatching agency dealing in everything from young business-school grads on the make or passed-over veterans. It concentrates on turning up what Boyden calls "the most complicated product there is-men to run large corporations...
Search & Employ. Companies that turn to Boyden pay a monthly fee that can run well into the thousands, depending on the importance of the job. Generally, Boyden's highly polished search-and-employ tactics turn up a prime prospect or two within 60 days. The firm maintains dossiers on 50,000 in-harness executives, runs 13 worldwide offices (eight in the U.S., five abroad) that watch corporate activity, screen candidates for specific clients...
Boyden's prospects are rarely aware that Boyden is aware of them as potential job hoppers. Former Studebaker President Sherwood Harry Egbert entered the dossier files years ago when McCulloch Corp., of which he was then executive vice president, commissioned Boyden's firm for a recruiting job. His own number came up in 1960, when Studebaker asked Boyden for a new president. More recently, there was Gillette's ex-President Stuart Hensley, who had been a contented company man for more than two decades until this year, when Boyden 1) sold Warner-Lambert Pharmaceutical Co. on Hensley...