Word: missionizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the decision got out, Dutch Catholic publications unanimously rose to defend the sculptor's exaggeration, argued that it suggested a frail mortal burdened and glorified by his heavenly mission. "Isn't wonder worth more than admiration?" wrote one commentator. This week the sculptor planned to meet with church authorities to urge them to change the commission's verdict. "This is Paul," Vlasblom maintained, "the man directly in the grip of God." But the commission seemed adamant and the huge clay statue, still uncast in concrete, began to deteriorate in its wrapping of old rags and oilcloth...
...Quiet American, he has translated his journalist's impressions into one of his novelistic moral conundrums. The attempt of the U.S. to find what he calls a "Third Force" between French colonialism and military Communism, is personified in Alden Pyle, member of a U.S. economic mission. He is the "quiet American"-a Harvard man, young, innocent, good, humorless, a Unitarian. He speaks in the hortatory Emily Post style which all British novelists since Max Beerbohm seem to think is the native speech of proper Bostonians. He eats "Vit-Health" sandwich-spread that his mother sends him. He is courageous...
...fearful strain and special terrors of the submariner's life. Author Morison, with his painstaking accuracy and his historian's gusto, is a ship of a different class. Disdaining fiction, and finding his excitement in verified facts, he reaches port, ties to his berth and reports: mission accomplished ; this...
...long years Marcel Prawy, 44, a Vienna-born American, has been a man with a mission. He has yearned to popularize the American musical comedy in Vienna, birthplace and home of the op eretta. But conservative musical Vienna orchestrated (tutti) a violent campaign against Prawy's dream. Composers, academicians and critics decried (sostenuto e fortissimo) the American musicomedy as a purveyor of cheap, foreign, bad music...
...maintain them, have been grounded ). But the new Air Force, in all its flux, is nonetheless sustained by a stable strength. In its short ten years of existence as a separate branch of the armed services, it has acquired tradition, theory, individuality, discipline and a high sense of mission-all while being constantly at work to meet the threat that the U.S. has never known before, intercontinental...