Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WHAT is news? Webster says simply that it is "matter of interest," a definition at once prosaic yet broad. Much interests TIME'S readers, their normal curiosity whetted by headlines, radio bulletins, TV shows. Sometimes some of the most important news of the week is made by these headlines. Newsmen rarely, if ever, report the news about themselves. Last week one story that shouted out of the front pages and caused repercussions both in the U.S. and in Europe-the story of John Foster Dulles' press conference-was created by the press, and thus what reporters, pundits...
Down Went the Facade. To make matters worse, there was still the tricky question of just who was to be buried in the Valley of the Fallen. Franco had decreed that the dead or both sides should lie there. But his own Falange followers kicked up such a fuss that the matter had to be dropped (TIME, Sept. 22). With the public not at all in the mood for a dedication of the Valley, Franco began stalling for time...
Women since then have had little chance to appear heroic. For centuries, the women of what is now South Viet Nam could not marry without their parents' consent, no matter what their age, or refuse a husband of their parents' choosing. They had to live with their in-laws, endure without protest their husbands' infidelities, could be turned out on the flimsiest charge of "disobedience" or reduced to the status of a servant to a new mistress in the house. But three years ago, when South Viet Nam became independent, the women found a champion. As sister...
...anybody's slave." Concluding, he said: "I know that for me imprisonment will be harder than it ever was for anyone, but I do not fear it, as I do not fear the fury of the miserable tyrant who killed my brothers. Condemn me! It does not matter! History will absolve me!" The judge, unmoved, sentenced Fidel to 15 years. Raul...
...Syson is a World War II flying hero whose Anglican orthodoxy is correct and painless. Most of his parishioners agree with him that Preedy is a humbug, but Preedy's miracles, performed in public, have convinced a few. Syson sets out to stop Preedy, and the matter comes to court. Not only does Syson fail, but he begins to re-examine his own faith. Like Gary himself, he does not deny God, but finds surer manifestations of him in the ordinary give and take of life than in established religion...