Word: hull
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...other nominees for the award are: Lynda Hull's "The Only World," William Matthew's "Time and Money," James Merrill's "A Scattering of Salts," and "Kyrie" by Ellen Bryant Voigt...
...music was ferocious and keen, but the Beatles made sure they were seen as decent boy-os from Liverpool. They worked fantastically hard--a concert in Hull, then drive down to London for a recording session and back home the same day for a radio interview. They appeared on all the popular TV variety shows, allowing the hosts to make genial mock of Beatlemania. The album underlines the band's close ties to mainstream British show biz. It was this grounding that helped them endure and enjoy their success with such amazing poise...
...fall from heaven could not be in sharper contrast with the ideals articulated in San Francisco, where rhetoric went so far as to quote Scripture about the fulfillment of prophecy. Cordell Hull, a U.S. Secretary of State during World War II, proclaimed, "There will no longer be need for spheres of influence, for alliances, balances of power or any other of the special arrangements through which, in the unhappy past, the nations strove to safeguard their security or to promote their interests...
...Failure was built into it by an extraordinary orgy of exaggerated expectations," argues Abba Eban, the longtime former Israeli Foreign Minister and veteran U.N. diplomat. The "messianic feeling, chiefly in the U.S.," that fueled it was captured by Hull's pronouncement, Eban believes. "It was the most ill-considered statement in the history of diplomacy, because he was saying that international organization--which after all is a mechanism, not a principle--was a panacea which would make all previous diplomacy obsolete. It turned out to be totally untrue...
...very somber group once the news came out," center Kent Hull said. "I can't think of a finer person than Mary Levy, and I just hate that he has to go through this...