Word: heed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mystery," Bohlen has often said. "It's a secret." To discover the secret, Bohlen kept up a running dialogue with Russian leaders that alternated between breezy quips and heated debates. But a split gradually opened between Bohlen and John Foster Dulles; the Secretary of State paid little heed to his ambassador's advice about the Russians. In 1957, against Bohlen's wishes, President Dwight Eisenhower pulled him out of Moscow and made him Ambassador to the Philippines. There, though he started from scratch, Bohlen did a typically professional job, helped maintain U.S. -Philippine ties at a time...
...unlike most of the Whiz Kids, occupies a position of direct power as director of defense research and engineering. A forceful advocate of U.S. nuclear testing. Physicist Brown is Secretary McNamara's principal technical adviser, and is probably the scientist to whom President Kennedy now pays closest heed. Complains an Air Force officer who tangled with him over the derailed RS-7O bomber program: "He's awfully cocky and sure of himself." A Columbia Ph.D. at 21, he worked throughout the 1950s with the University of California's Radiation Laboratory, where he did research in the design...
...Song IV is from Friedrich Nietzsche's "O Man! Take Heed!" from Thus Spake Zarathustra: One! O Man! Take heed! Two! What speaks the deep midnight! Three! "I slept, I slept-" Four! "From deep dream I awoke:" Five! "The world is deep," Six! "And deeper than...
...prompted Serkin and Bernstein, Mannes and Graffman and Szell and Firkusny to exchange pleased glances. "Let's hear Beethoven's Opus 27 in E-flat," asked Leopold Mannes from the balcony. Block then eased his way into the Beethoven sonata fantasy with a keen intelligence that paid heed not only to detail but also to essential unity. Displaying versatility as well as virtuosity, Block played a cadenza from a Tchaikovsky concerto and a Liszt sonata. Chattering excitedly, the judges reached a verdict in 15 minutes, and this time Michel Block walked off with the prize...
...best-known and gloomiest of Calvinist tenets: predestination. In his Institutes, Calvin argued that God has already determined both those who will be saved at the Last Judgment and those who will suffer the eternal pangs of Hell. Barth says that this belief does not pay sufficient heed to the fact that Christ's death was intended for all men: Man's ultimate fate is shrouded in mystery, but Barth believes that Christ, the loving Judge, could indeed reconcile all the world to the Father. "I do not preach universal salvation," Barth insists. "What I say is that...