Word: portent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...threshold of great problems." A cautious spokesman for the Church of England said, "His Holiness expressed to the Archbishop his great desire to increase brotherly feelings among all men, and especially among all Christians." But as the Archbishop had observed in advance: "Talking trivialities is in itself a portent of great significance. The pleasantries may be pleasantries about profundities." He seemed relieved that the interview had been private: "I am quite happy there were no pictures. All sorts of things might have been read into them-odious comparisons made...
Slapped Face. In yet another gloomy portent for the future, De Gaulle-who this week celebrates his yoth birthday-was finding the Fifth Republic's hand-tailored governmental apparatus increasingly balky and unreliable. In the National Assembly, despite their awareness that they would surely be outvoted, opposition Deputies introduced a motion of censure protesting De Gaulle's cherished bill to create a French nuclear force. Even the trial of the men who led last January's right-wing insurrection in Algeria backfired when the nine-man military tribunal granted "provisional liberty" to ex-Paratrooper Pierre Lagaillarde...
...receive the Archbishop standing, instead of with the customary seated extension of his ring to be kissed. Except for an interpreter, the two bishops will be alone. What they talk about may be trivialities, Dr. Fisher admitted last week, but, he added, "Talking trivialities is in itself a portent of great significance. The pleasantries may be pleasantries about profundities...
Certainly the response of 102 people questioned by the survey team bear out Herklots' hesitation. Here are the results: Kennedy (or leaning to Kennedy)--44. Nixon (or leaning to Nixon)--45. Undecided--13. As a portent of things to come, one simply cannot detect any definitive trend on the basis of these figures. It can be assumed, if Brooklyn's reputation as a barometer proves valid again this year, that the election will be extremely close, but this is hardly shedding any new light on the situation. As an indication of the people's mood, however, answers to the lengthy...
Democrats, however, point to this drop in Republican estimates as a portent of things to come. Robert Caldwell, managing editor of the Bayonne Times in Hudson, thinks that his county will give Kennedy a 100,000 edge, enough to insure victory in the state. He reported that the dissident factions who have been picking at the remains of the old Hague Democratic machine in Jersey City have united behind the party and are successfully getting out the vote. Caldwell cites Hudson's 78 per cent Catholic population as an important factor in the county's support of Kennedy...