Word: kept
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this unfavorable relation of forces come about? How did the West decline from its triumphal march to its present sickness? Have there been fatal turns and losses of direction in its development? It does not seem so. The West kept advancing socially in accordance with its proclaimed intentions, with the help of brilliant technological progress. And all of a sudden it found itself in its present state of weakness...
While freshman football is rarely satisfying for anyone, Brown was able to put things in perspective. "Sure it's frustrating when you're not heavily recruited and you're on the same field with 80 high school captains. But luckily I avoided injury, kept my self-confidence, and treated the whole thing as a learning experience. I knew my chance would come...
...Cardinals who had entered the conclave as favorites listened attentively. Both are highly placed in the Vatican's powerful bureaucracy, the Curia: Sergio Pignedoli, who sat just to the right of the altar, and Sebastiano Baggio, who sat just to the left. But the name that kept resounding toward the shadowy ceiling of the chapel be longed to no seasoned veteran of the Curia. It belonged to a Cardinal who had never drafted documents from the dry heart of the Vatican at all, or served overseas in the papal diplomatic service. He had, in fact, only rarely been outside...
...happy-and hot-atmosphere of the chapel, the Cardinals loosened their clerical collars and unbuttoned their mozzettas (episcopal capes). The Pope kept the Cardinals in conclave overnight, and the informal mood continued through dinner that evening as the new Pope took his previously assigned place at the table with the other Cardinals...
...recaptures for us in a way that gives the film its strangely innocent, almost wistful quality. How one wishes that the revolutionary politics of our age had actually been conducted with the elegance and civility depicted here. If only history had Granier-Deferre's good taste, and had kept the blood and violence offstage, so that the sound of the gramophone playing tangos had not been drowned...