Word: foresightedness
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About 1830, workmen took down the theater's interior, but some foresighted official, who knew that the world's taste ebbs and flows, had each piece carefully numbered. In 1857 the tide turned, and the interior was easily reassembled. Twenty-six years later it became the first German...
Strictly for Whispering. The most obvious objection, says the liberal Protestant weekly, is economic. Seminaries find themselves spending money on quarters for married students that might otherwise go to maintenance or faculty improvement. The expense of "such massive swaddling" drove "the distinguished and dignified president of one of our proudest...
Ovation. Listeners over 14, said Miller, are rebelling by turning off radios and programing for themselves with phonographs. He snorted at the jockeys' attempt to justify what they play by arguing that they only "give them what they want." Asked he: "Does the demand for a record come because...
In the deep change, the Roman Catholic Church has played a foresighted and honorable role; it sensed popular anger at dictators in Argentina. Colombia and Venezuela, and stood quietly but firmly against them. Last week the church in Cuba shifted adroitly into opposition to Strongman Fulgencio Batista by calling for...
Harry Truman played fortissimo also on his successor's foreign policy ("The present Administration has acted like an overbearing banker with a glass eye, not like a loyal and faithful friend to other nations"), on the U.S. missile lag and the possibility of a 5? postage stamp. But he...