Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under Horton's "quiet and imaginative leadership," Pusey said, "the Divinity School has experienced a rebirth." Appointed in 1955, Horton had been a leader in the world ecumenical movement, and Minister of the General Council of Congregational Christian Churches. His appointment was part of an effort to promote a more ecumenical outlook at the Divinity School and study of varying streams of religious thought...
Besides the transfer of parliamentary leadership and a possible functional change in the role of the Presidency, a general political limbering may occur. Since 1949 "the Old Man" has dominated the German scene, and has ruled with moderation and rigidity. He has been a staunch internationalist and has stressed the need for a firm Franco-German reconciliation. For better or worse this policy has borne fruit; France and Germany, linked institutionally in the Common Market, maintain also a tight policy alliance within NATO, and today appear as the chief exponents of rigidity vis-a-vis Anglo-American "flexibility...
...brilliant saga has already been set down by others, some of it by Author Scott himself in God Is My Co-Pilot (TIME, Aug. 9, 1943). But Scott's present accounts of battles in the China air, of maddening service red tape and of Chennault's leadership have the ring of truth, loyalty and experience. Generals in higher places treating Chennault as they did may have had reasons Fighter Scott never knew about. What he shows in Flying Tiger is an advantage few of them enjoyed: the knowledge that comes only to the man on the trigger...
Under the leadership of Victor Manusevitch, a first violinist with the Boston Symphony, whose energy and perseverance has been largely responsible for the formation of the Orchestra, the musicians successfully combined an amateur enthusiasm with a very high level of competence...
Unfortunately, Acting Secretary Herter has been unable or unwilling to exercise this kind of leadership and efforts to "coordinate allied views" at the recent North Atlantic Treaty Organization meeting proved a poor substitute for personal leadership. President Eisenhower should either exhibit this kind of leadership himself, or surrender the policy-making reins to Macmillan-the only Western statesman who has shown initiative during the Berlin crisis...