Word: formalization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...politicians who promised a new heaven and earth to get votes." Today Mirza lives in a big house with ample grounds and cool white porticos in the center of Karachi with his second wife, a sophisticated Persian.* Mirza's appointment to the governor generalship requires the formal confirmation of Queen Elizabeth, but Strongman Mirza is in no doubt about what his authority will give him. Said he: "The Governor General must have extensive and clearly defined powers, including the power to dismiss governments." Mirza's first job was to accept the resignation of Premier Mohammed Ali. The Premier...
...penciling a novel. Mississippi Squire Faulkner harrumphed: "No. I have reached the age now (57) when I work only when the weather is bad." Why did he write Sanctuary? 'I wanted a horse, and I heard that people were making money by writing novels." After the formal conference, the newsmen hung around for more Faulknerisms and free-flowing heat-chasers. Any comment on Henry James? "One of the nicest old ladies I ever knew." How much had Gertrude Stein influenced his writing? "Very little," drawled Bill Faulkner affably. "I didn't meet her until I was 50.* Next...
...starved Bolivia. Last spring, Peru and Bolivia started planning a new railroad to bypass Lake Titicaca, where everything traveling between Peru's Pacific ports and La Paz must now be transshipped to and from a lake steamer. When the ceremonies were over, Paz Estenssoro and Odria signed a formal agreement to go ahead with the 115-mile Puno-Guaqui railroad. Said a Peruvian diplomat: "Peru and Bolivia look to me like Siamese brothers, joined by the Titicaca lake...
...with the briefcase, the Rev. George Crist Jr., 31-year-old pastor of LUTHERAN HERESY TRIBUNAL & PASTOR CRIST Where is up? Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Durham, Wis., was on trial for heresy. The seven men at the table were Lutheran ministers chosen to carry out the first formal trial for heresy ever held in the 60-year history of the Northwest Synod of the United Lutheran Church in America, largest (membership: 2,061,004) group of Lutheran synods in the U.S. The charge: "Holding, teaching and preaching doctrines in convict with the Lutheran faith...
Died. Willy Pogany, 72, Hungarian-born painter, illustrator and architectural designer; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. With little formal training, Pogany became one of the most versatile artists of his day. Among his creations: murals for Manhattan's Ziegfeld Theater; scenes, sets and costumes for the Metropolitan Opera's Cog d'Or; three 18-ft. stained-glass windows in Los Angeles' Forest Lawn Cemetery...