Word: paton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...worst of South African crimes-he had fathered a child by black Joseph's sister. The girl with her little Bastaard, "yellow and wrinkled like a stone," had been sent packing. Big Joseph, on a pilgrimage as painful as that of the black pastor in Alan Paton's Cry, The Beloved Country, had made his pitiful trek to discover what happened to his sister and her child. After failing in his search, he had returned to make a moral judgment of the whites who had wronged him. His sentence: he dooms the whites to his own company...
...where State Department morale has probably come close to an all-time low under his administration. At a time when Senator McCarthy was attacking the State Department, Dulles responded not with a strong defense of the loyalty of the Department, but with the firing of career diplomats like John Paton Davies Jr., and with the appointment of Scott McLeod as Department security officer. And even since McCarthy's demise, Dulles has made no effort to begin a drastically-needed build-up process to make sure that when he leaves office, there will be a strong and creative Department--both...
...pace of the performance, which never lagged, must be credited largely to Stage Director Margaret Fairbank and Musical Director Wayne Paton. Paton coordinated the signing and accompaniment, capably done by Richard Freidberg, and managed to keep even the most crowded scenes from losing their focus. William Cowperthwaite's arrangement of the overture for two piano's played by Friedberg and Larry Berman, deserves special notice for setting standard and a mood which were maintained throughout the evening...
...trade publisher" is primarily concerned with financial profit. Yet certainly not all authors write with sales in mind, and their ideas do not have to be popular to reach print. As George A. Hall '47, of Little, Brown, put it, "There are many books today, like those of Alan Paton, that deal with unpleasant subjects. Ordinarily an unpleasant book is a hard book to sell, but if it is beautifully written, there is no reason why it should not be as successful as a piece of sheer entertainment...
...know what these symbols mean. Better have them translated." At St. Peter's Priory, they interrupted Anglican Missionary Trevor Huddleston in the middle of a Scripture lesson and expropriated 44 documents. The prize loot: Father Huddleston's correspondence with South African Author Alan (Cry the Beloved Country) Paton...