Word: greatnesse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The Call to Greatness. Paul VI is neither inquisitor nor nepotist nor Renaissance prince. Yet he is a strange and complex man whom few have been able to define with precision. Italian Banker Vittorino Veronese, a former chief of Italy's Catholic Action movement, says that he has "such...
In a moving peroration, Stevenson reflected on the greatness of Eleanor Roosevelt, and urged every graduate to follow Mrs. Roosevelt's example of "doing everything because it was worth doing; of doing nothing because it would help to enhance her own role."
In John's white-painted bedroom, keeping watch with his doctors over the coma-stricken body on the simple brass bed, were the Pope's brothers and sister from Bergamo, and Monsignor Loris Capovilla, his secretary and confidant. And as Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli clung to the edge of...
Charles Bulfinch, eventually to become one of America's most honored architects, was a gentleman builder before he was a professional. He came from a respectable Boston family which had cultivated in him an interest in all the proper disciplines and especially in architecture. He attended to this interest as...
"WHEN accepting the invitation, I was asked to speak about "The Human Condition in Relation to the Anniversary Celebration of TIME Magazine." While the human condition is a subject of general philosophical significance, our interest tonight is focused on the late past and the near future. Nevertheless, one cannot say...