Word: minding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sounds perhaps too contemporary for the middle of the fourteenth century. Nils Poppe as the peasant Jof, on the other hand, accepts his visions of the Virgin and Child with the same simplicity and sureness as he does the goodness of being alive: doubt could not arise in his mind with regard to either. It is between these two pure extremes that the knight, Max von Sydow, agonizes, the pain of his struggle exacerbated by the other forms in which faith presents itself: as terrified fanaticism in the monks and soldiers--in the flagellants, as a masochistic disease...
...hyar or you ken set it thar." Since 1939 he has represented the hill-and-dale Second District, which also boasts such place names as Morning Sun, Evening Shade and Oil Trough. Stocky (5 ft. 8 in., 180 Ibs.), gracious Wilbur Mills has a first-rate fiscal mind, is a Rayburn protege, ranks high on the list of possible future Speakers. But he is in a dangerous political situation: with Arkansas due to lose two Representatives after the 1960 census. Mills cannot risk being gerrymandered out of Congress by a legislature under the segregationist thumb of Governor Orval Faubus. Mills...
...efficient operation of House machinery. Through Mills, Rayburn can see to it that a promising youngster gets a good committee. If he kicks loose from the party traces too often, a Gentleman from Iowa, say, may find himself a member of the Merchant Marine & Fisheries Committee ("I don't mind them voting against the party sometimes," says Rayburn, "but I don't like it to be chronic...
...name of pius Aeneas calls to mind that of the immortal poet (70-19 B.C.) of whom it was written: "To be a Christian in Vergil's day was like being a Communist today." Ah, well, perhaps it is the wave of the future...
...Doctor's Dilemma. A careful, rather too conventional interpretation of a strange and sometimes brilliant play that sheds less light on its subject than it does on the mind of Playwright Bernard Shaw, who sometimes dates but never sedates...