Word: gifts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dylan's gift is a tremendous outburst of pity for the suffering, who are represented always in highly stylized situations. A romantic aura surrounds the actors, heightening the spiritual insight of their actions. Of the love-songs on the album, two are suitably "distanced," and one, "I'll be your Baby Tonight," is sublimely simple...
...Somali government when she was First Lady. Last month the generous Somalis presented a similar token of their esteem to Muriel Humphrey, 55, during her African jaunt with the Vice President. Alas! The intervening years have seen the passage of a law prohibiting Government officials from accepting any gift of more than "minimal value," and Muriel had to turn the furs over to the State Department. There is a possibility, said State, that Humphrey might be allowed to carpet his office in leopard, but the skins are the Government's property and will stay after the Humphreys leave...
...Problems in finding heart donors have been eased by the drama of the first transplant, with the appealing element that the humblest accident victim might, by the donation of his heart, confer the gift of life on another...
...desire for contemporaneity, the letter went on, has led to a number of errors that now threaten the church -such as the argument that the primary need in Catholicism is not "conversion to God" but a rebuilding of structures, and that the priestly ministry is not a special divine gift. In deploring the "derelict priest," who has scandalized the faithful by leaving the church, the bishops argued that the meaning of the priesthood cannot be made relevant in purely humanistic categories. "It is not the Christian vocation to canonize the human condition as such or to lament over...
...beer-bellied, chortling Santa Claus, but a lean, rather stern-faced man in a dark business suit who spoke through thin lips with a noticeable Afrikaans accent. He offered no tinseled presents, but the hope that his kind of surgical pioneering may eventually bring the vastly more valuable gift of renewed and prolonged life to many victims of heart disease. He was Dr. Christiaan Neethling Barnard (TIME cover, Dec. 15), who flew to the U.S. from Cape Town to Face the Nation on CBS, appeared on Today, filmed a future episode for The 21st Century, and began this week with...