Word: matthew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking [Matthew...
Other members of the new board are Matthew Rubin '62, of Quincy House and Newton, vice-president; David E. Levy '63, of Quincy House and Verons, N.J., treasurer; and Robert C. Channon '62, of Quincy House and Riverdale...
...Army's Chief of Staff from 1953 to 1955, General Matthew Ridgway fought publicly for a bigger budget for conventional warfare-and was eased out of the Pentagon. General Taylor, Ridgway's successor, waged a behind-the-scenes battle-and resigned in 1959 in frustration. Next came two men who have been criticized for their lack of drive. General Lyman ("Lem") Lemnitzer, 62, a brilliant staff officer with little combat experience, served as Army Chief of Staff from 1959 to 1960, then moved up to chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and President...
...State Department's refusal to believe in the plasticity of the Cuban Revolution, is Matthew's major regret. In his chapter on Fidel Castro, he complains: "Each year since 1957 there has been a different Fidel Castro to deal with, yet each year--each day, in fact--he is treated as if the ideas he holds then and the policies he is following will not or cannot change...
...author's most recent withdrawal may mean merely that his social needs are met by a wife and two children (Matthew, 1½, and Peggy, a precociously bright five-year-old). But Salinger is at work on his first really large body of fiction. The Glass family story cycle is already far longer than Catcher, and clearly it is nowhere near completion (a friend reports that Salinger intends to write a Glass trilogy). Since his marriage, the author has exhausted himself, and his supply of sociability, in a protracted effort to give his legend structure and direction, to deal with characters...