Word: performed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Toward Communism behind the Iron Curtain, the Pope's policy has been "pastoral," i.e., he has tried to get along with the Communist regimes as long as they allow the Church to perform even a minimum of its functions, in order to spare the faithful persecutions and the prospect of martyrdom. There is also a "muscular"' faction in the Church-among its spokesmen are Cardinals Ottaviani, Canali and New York's Spellman-which believes that the Red regimes are slowly strangling Catholicism in Eastern Europe, and that it might be better to take a tough line, even...
...open six Parliaments, lay seven wreaths, unveil three memorials, plant six trees, dedicate a school in Fiji, a road in Jamaica and a cathedral in New Zealand. If all this does not in itself add up to history, the tact, charm and grace with which Elizabeth and her husband perform their courtesy calls will have an important bearing on the future of their realm...
Behind locked doors last week, directors of Manhattan's Equitable Life Assurance Society met to perform an unpleasant job: the ouster of Chairman Thomas I. Parkinson, 71. They did not have much choice. State Superintendent of Insurance Alfred J. Bohlinger, who had brought out a report charging Parkinson with "nepotism" in handling the society's affairs (TIME, Nov. 9), threatened to get a court order to remove Parkinson. After twelve hours of debate, the board found a face-saving way to satisfy the state's insurance superintendent, allow Parkinson to get his retirement...
Director of the Hillel Foundation at Harvard, Rabbi Maurico L. Zigmond said, "The particular religious denomination to follow after marriage should be decided before union. If both parties do not agree to Judaism then it would be hypocritical for me to perform the ceremony and I would have to send them to a civil officer...
...Princeton Glee Club, conducted by Carl Weinrich, noted organist and Lamb Visiting Lecturer at Harvard in 1950, will perform several old English glees, folk songs by Stravinsky, Vaughan Williams, and Kodaly, and works by Schubert, Mendelssohn, and Sullivan...