Word: latters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Theme of Frank Bridge (Boyd Neel String Orchestra; London). Composed when he was 23, this work shows Britten's wit and enthusiasm at its best. Perhaps because it was inspired by a melodious theme of his teacher, Frank Bridge, it is also more tuneful than most latter-day Britten. Among its movements: a march, a Viennese waltz, a funeral march...
...make old Syngman Rhee see reason if possible, Washington had dispatched a task force to Korea headed by greying, courtly Assistant Secretary of State Walter Robertson. The latter bore a friendly but forceful letter to Rhee from Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. Excerpts...
Citizens' Navy. At Newport, R.I., after a Navy Relief Society benefit "election" on the destroyer Hale, Gunner's Mate Arnold E. Bukovsky, the titlewinner, consoled his commanding officer after the latter ran fourth as "Grouchiest Man Aboard Ship...
Clear Commitment. The latter was one of the most momentous communications ever penned by a U.S. President. It was a velvet-gloved rejection of Rhee's threat to keep fighting. It was also a catalog of benefits which would accrue to Rhee if he agreed to armistice. But over all, it was a clear U.S. commitment, Congress willing, to stand by humanitarian and political principles in Korea...
...good ground of material welfare for all, involves difficulties. "The Christian is a citizen of two worlds," says Catholic Philosopher Heinrich Rommen, "the City of God and the City of Man. He is destined for the former, but he must live and work for his salvation in the latter." From a deep and common tap root, the Christian Democrats of Europe branch out in a variety of directions...