Word: herberts
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...have known Tennessee Williams and Milk Train's Director Herbert Machiz for years. From neither of them did I get any impression that Milk Train had a religious content of any marked importance, certainly none in a Christian vein. A psychoanalyst has given me a complete explanation, in Freudian terms, of the play's dramatizing the oral v. the anal; a philosophic friend told me Williams has examined "existence" and "nothingness" in terms of "knowing" as opposed to "understanding"; one poet I know sees "the Angel of Death" as a purely Rilkean angel ("a peaceful presence...
Brown served 34 years as secretary of the Missions Board, "thankful to have a part in the movement for human betterment." He produced what is still the classic guide to the essential meaning of pastoral life abroad, The Foreign Missionary. At the behest of his friend Herbert Hoover, Brown helped establish a number of World War I relief committees-notably Near East Relief, which raised more than $116 million to assist 1,500,000 war-dispossessed refugees...
Gracious Living Can Be Fun. Topflight lecturers this year include such heavy-duty thinkers as Editor Norman Cousins ("Education and Our Foreign Policy"), Author Vance Packard ("The Changing Character of the American People"), ex-FBI Agent Herbert Philbrick ("Zero Hour for America"). There is still room for the woman's angle with such as Gossipist Hedda Hopper on Hollywood, and Etiquette Expert Amy Vanderbilt ("Gracious Living Can Be Fun"). And it seems there will always be John Mason Brown, the dean of them all, who has been dispensing wit and wisdom for 36 years, is currently attacking what...
...application essay for law school, "and has concluded that one would not be altogether unhappy in the courts of the land. On the contrary...." The admissions officer had read such statements before; invariably they were accompanied by grades so high as to make any other considerations superfluous. Herbert's case was typical...
...Herbert left Harvard through the famous gate inscribed "Depart To Serve Better Thy Country And Thy Kind." Exception might be taken to the unreflective urgency of the imperative, but, surely, Herbert thought, one could embrace the desire to invigorate the public sector...