Word: personable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...preferable to the second is out of place in Canada. He should be an American citizen, not a British subject." For the next four weeks, though they will grumble darkly at the cost and occasionally disparage the Crown itself, Canadians will turn out to see the Crown in the person of their Queen, Elizabeth II. Hers is a task much in contrast to the imperial role of her grandparents (later George V and Queen Mary) when they toured India in 1905 (see cut). Now the prides, loyalties and sympathies that Canadians feel are shared, in some degree at least...
...most dynamic I met elsewhere wouldn't come near the church. Somehow they felt that the church smothered them and judged them too quickly. There are two aspects of the ministry-the ministry of proclamation and of response. The ministry of response is listening, knowing a person, receiving his gift...
Tourist Graham also had a good word to say for "the high standard of Russian morality" and the "moral purity" of the Russians as compared to the broad-daylight sex life he had observed in London parks (TIME, June 22). Said Billy: "I did not see one person walking down the street with an arm around another. We went to a park where thousands of young people were gathered. They held hands, but they were very disciplined...
Having long behaved like 36 characters in search of an author, Demara finally found the author in the person of Robert Crichton, 34-year-old son of Author-Editor Kyle (The Proud People) Crichton. The result is this slight, bright, abrasively readable biography of a bounder...
...Eighteen percent of all those answering the questionnaire said they believed in an "infinitely wise, omnipotent, three-person God who created the universe and who maintains an active concern for human affairs." The largest group of respondents -24%-believed in "a God about whom nothing definite can be affirmed." Only 4% flatly denied God's existence...