Word: honorable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Father Thomas F. Powers of the Harvard-Radcliffe Catholic Students' Center said the local church will not hold any special services to honor Pope Paul, but will "remember him in the regular parish Masses" during the week...
...trial; a movie projector sat where defendants normally do in the seedy Moscow courtroom. While Craig Whitney of the New York Times and Harold Piper of the Baltimore Sun vacationed in the U.S. last week, Soviet Judge Lev Almazov ruled that they had disseminated "libelous information denigrating the honor" of Soviet TV employees. Specifically, they had quoted sources doubting the authenticity of a dissident's confession broadcast on Soviet...
...that Americans have understood him and his greatest work, the Declaration of Independence. The Declaration, argues Wills, "is written in the lost language of the Enlightenment." It has passed through 202 years embalmed and misinterpreted, a sacred text enshrined in an ark of incomprehension. "The best way to honor the spirit of Jefferson," begins the historian, "is to use his doubting intelligence again on his own text...
...stakes in Baguio City are even higher than they were in Iceland six years ago, when Bobby Fischer came out of Brooklyn to whip Boris Spassky and temporarily break the long Soviet domination of the game that Lenin himself consecrated as "a gymnasium of the mind." Defending the Soviet honor this time is Karpov, a onetime prodigy who inherited the world title in 1975, when Fischer failed to defend it,* and is now a major Soviet hero, complete with membership on the Young Communist League's central committee. But facing him. in a duel that could take two grueling...
...writing materials. A pedantic adherence to certain papers, pens, inks is beneficial . The more circumspectly you delay writing down an idea, the more maturely developed it will be on surrendering itself. Speech conquers thought, but writing commands it ... Never stop writing because you have run out of ideas. Literary honor requires that one break off only at an appointed moment . . . Avoid everyday mediocrity. Semirelaxation, to a background of insipid sounds, is degrading." Benjamin ends his list with "The work is the death mask of its conception...