Word: meagerness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With this meager store of facts, I could only expect a stern intellectual, an the capital "L" implied that she might be an English dowager as well. Hardly had she opened the door of her Commander Hotel room when these illusions were swept aside...
Story begins with a poignant collection of stills and family photographs. Staring disconsolately from nearly all of them is the vulnerable "ugly duckling" whose beautiful, indifferent mother died young and whose doting father provided meager solace to her. "He began drinking when she was quite small," Mrs. Cole recalls chattily. "Eventually he was sent off to a little town in Vir ginia." A painfully unpromising New York debutante, Eleanor became the bride of her cousin F.D.R. and seemed destined for a life of no particular distinction as a self-effacing wife, a frequent mother, a perfectly conventional matron...
...What is being testified to by the God-is-dead group [Oct. 22] is the difficulty of faith today, rather than the death of God. The difficulty of having faith means that the doubter's resources are so meager that he can conceive only of a God whose existence can be denied...
Kind Words for Matt. The six-page Courier, which sells for 10?, covers the news with a professionalism that belies the inexperience of its editors and their meager resources. Refusing to accept any money from civil rights groups, the paper raises what it can on college campuses in the North-about $43,000 to date. Advertising income amounts to an inconsequential $100 a week. The youthful twelve-man staff (down from a summer peak of 18, now that students have returned to college) works for $20-a-week salaries and the sheer exhilaration of it. "Coming down here was about...
Bishop Perry's selection is likely to resurrect some of New Orleans' racial dissension. On the other hand, as the Vatican realizes, it will not go unnoticed among U.S. Negroes. Of them, only a meager 723,000 are now numbered among the nation's 45 million Roman Catholics...