Word: latterday
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...federal-state problems? Replied Wayne Morse: No, nothing could come of such a meeting. Undaunted, Hatfield went ahead and held his own man-to-man conferences. Last week he worked around to the other half of the Morseberger senatorial team, Morse's onetime protégé and latterday whipping boy, Senator Richard Neuberger. Together Neuberger and Hatfield sat down for tea and a chat that left Wayne Morse frothing with anger...
...Clancy, in notably parallel views, attack the extremists on either side of the running church-and-state debate. Clancy asserts that the all-out "separationists" are really a minority, and just as dogmatic in their way as the dogmatic churches they oppose. Cohen refers to the same group as "latterday Jacobins." Instead of regarding the secular as the neutral arena where conflicts of principle may be fought out, he says, the Jacobins have turned secularism into a weapon...
President Eliot's cautious humanism was not so unrealistic, says Bartley, as the "latterday optimism" of President Pusey, which expects help "from only one kind of contemporary thinker: the flashy existentialist or teutonic theologian who ministers to the 'Big Questions' with big answers and bigger 'systems.' " Harvard is in a worse way, says Bartley, since "it has become forward to look backward and to call perverse those dry and analytical philosophers who deflate the wind bags of our time instead of blowing up more themselves...
...name of his mother Francesca. He studied at Florence, returned to Borgo San Sepolcro to get his first major commission, traveled through Italy painting in Rimini, Ferrara, Rome, Arezzo and Urbino, then settled down to spend his last 14 years in his native town compiling two mathematical treatises. Latterday Sansepolcrans prided themselves on owning three of Piero's major works, and kept alive the hope that more would one day come to light...
...exiled parents in Estoril, Portugal. The question, already taken up in an exchange of letters through ducal couriers, was how the slim, shy, blond Juanito should be trained as absolute monarch over what may well prove to be a turbulent Spain. Franco gave Don Juan a fill in on latterday Falangist philosophy, talked about Spain's need for autocratic rule in order to avoid opening the door to "chaos" (i.e., democracy). The way to make an autocrat out of Juanito: intense military and religious" training...