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Although Truman finds himself unable to give Stevenson direct support, his indirect help to Stevenson and the Democratic party is sizeable. Truman can still attack the Republicans with a skill that warms the hearts of loyal Democrats. Occasionally Truman will forget himself, and, relishing every word, plunge a choice phrase into Richard Nixon. In Boston he said, "You can't elect Ike without electing Tricky Dicky too!" During the shouts and applause that followed, Truman smiled slowly as if to say, "I can still do it, when I want...
...words in an ordinary language. Proper names and certain technical words which have no Picto equivalent are spelled out as in the original. In the interest of simplicity. Picto has no articles, makes no distinction between adjectives and adverbs. Its word order goes: subject, verb, direct object, indirect object. Janson started with the personal pronouns-I, you, he and she-which he designated I, II, III, and which retain the same form when they shift from subject to object. Plurals are indicated with the figure 2. Thus I² we or us; II² you (plural); III² they...
...summoned to The Hague's Noordeinde Palace. They were told that 47-year-old Juliana and her 45-year-old German prince were determined to work things out together. A government spokesman made it clear that "the Queen has decided to entertain no more relations either direct or indirect with Miss [Greet] Hofmans," the faith healer whose influence over Queen Juliana caused a royal rift (TIME, June 25). Nor would Juliana attend any more religious conferences at ex-Queen Wilhelmina's country palace, Het Loo, where Greet Hofmans held sway over a religious-minded group of peace enthusiasts...
...enjoy your sparkling July 30 story on our musical play, The Complaining Angel. The mother of one of the pictured nuns cabled from Europe to say she saw it in your foreign edition. You implied that a Poor Clare nun wrote the lyrics you quoted. These and the indirect quotes used, e.g., "limp gimp," "dimpled wimple" came from the versatile playwright-professor, John D. Tumpane...
Reconciliation of the two viewpoints is possible by one's acceptance of the autonomous theory as having primary and direct importance; and the heteronomous theory as being of secondary and indirect value, Haydon continued. He asserted that the interweaving of the two theories "provides for a wide range of functioning of perceptual and conceptual meanings...