Word: item
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...summer long the Kennedy administration seemed to consider the civil rights bill the most important item before Congress. But this fall, through newspaper leaks and public statements, government officials have let it be known that they consider the tax bill of equal priority. Since the Senate probably will not pass both measures during this session, the Democratic Congressional leadership must decide shortly which legislation to bring to the floor first, and which to put off until...
...Bordeaux (it took 85 days to get there). As well as being rare, they were in excellent condition. So when the bidding reached ?27,500, Raymond H. Weill, a New Orleans dealer, made his only bid-?28,000. It was the highest price ever offered for a philatelic item, and nobody chose to go higher. The hammer fell, and Mr. Weill leaned across to a fellow American. "How much is ?28,000 in dollars?" he asked. Answer...
...Another item of consensus was hatred of the proposed common building between Eliot and Bertram, which would jut out into the quadrangle. "Intrusive and unnecessary," was one verdict, and there was no one to speak for it. "I hate the Commons building," one girl said simply...
This organizational change will complement a theological reform that presumably will be enacted by the council in the first item on the session's agenda: De Ecclesia (On the Church). Since the definition of papal infallibility in 1870, bishops have often seemed to be little more than Vatican errand boys. Yet the traditional teaching of the church is that bishops are just as truly descendants of the apostles as the Pope -a doctrine that will be brought out with new clarity in De Ecclesia...
Insider or Out. Baldwin's Go Tell It on the Mountain, by now a celebrated item in the canon of that highly praised writer, stuns the reader's mind with the intensity of its autobiographical anguish, evokes all the prophetic frenzies of the author's Harlem childhood and violently scorns-at the same time that it demands respect for-his abandoned pulpit. Baldwin is the insider looking out. Many people, and this includes all who read for enjoyment, will prefer Goyen-the outsider looking in. When he looks in at the theological thimbleriggers of the clapboard cathedrals...