Word: flourishings
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After a welcoming flourish on its gleam ing, 40-in. herald trumpets, the Army band swung smartly into Waltz of the Flowers, and the two old soldiers in mufti stepped out to review their honor guard. Both were out of step with the music, but neither seemed to notice. The niceties of military precision were a remote problem last week to President Dwight Eisenhower and his guest. President Charles de Gaulle. The man of France was making his first visit to the U.S. in 15 years, not as a soldier but as a statesman, not as a pleader...
...outnumber clubhouses in some areas, but the churches are warmer and cozier than the clubs. Example: without openly taking the offensive, but "quietly and peacefully," the Russian Orthodox Church has infiltrated the industrial region around Perm in the Urals, so that "alongside the universities of culture, universities of obscurantism flourish." Unlike the propagandists for atheism, "these holy fathers are not deterred from their duties either by cold or by impassable roads...
...Happy Warrior. But Roosevelt deserved little credit. The Wordsworth couplet (from the poem that was read at Grover Cleveland's funeral in 1908) was written into the nominating speech by its principal ghostwriter, New York Judge Joseph M. Proskauer. Roosevelt accepted the idea reluctantly, argued that the flourish was too literary for hardheaded convention delegates...
Aristotle Invoked. The audiences keep coming back to the Second City, on Chicago's North Wells St., where the declining skill of satire is kept alive with brilliance and flourish. Reorganized last summer, the group that once gave basic training to Comics Shelley Berman, Mike Nichols and Elaine May rented a Chinese laundry, built a stage and paneled the walls with the sides of discarded phone booths. Many in the company-including Director Paul Sills, Actors Barbara Harris, Severn Darden, Andrew Duncan-date back to the Nichols-May-Berman days, keep up their longstanding practice of developing material...
...guaranteeing the rights of Europeans." In London, Macmillan's Colonial Secretary Iain Macleod grappled with the problem as it affects Kenya colony. Meeting privately with European, African, Asian and Arab delegates from Kenya, he laid down two elements of British policy: 1) the system "I hope to see flourish in Kenya" is the "Westminster model" of parliamentary institutions, rather than a strong executive; 2) "as . time goes on, Africans, and I use the term in the commonly accepted sense [i.e., blacks], will be in the majority position, and their voice will be the predominant voice." White settler representatives were...