Word: proclaimed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stone tower overlooking the Pacific, aging (67) Poet Robinson Jeffers mourns for his wife, who died in 1950, sings the glories of nature, and waits for the peace that is death. There are still plenty of Jeffers admirers who would not hesitate to proclaim him the greatest living U.S. poet. The qualities they have liked in him-his violence, his darkly unrelenting, tragic view of human existence, his lines surging with the momentum of Pacific rollers-are all present in Hunger-field, his first book in five years. But they are echoes now. Writes Jeffers in the last poem...
...should leave this church without making a binding vow that, with God's grace, you will try from this moment on to be a better Christian ... If you are not changed, the carols of Christmas Day will not proclaim the birth of the Savior of mankind, no matter how beautifully they may be sung. Instead, they will echo with the hollow sound of human hypocrisy and say only to a skeptical world, 'The so-called Incarnation is nothing but a sentimental fraud...
...last week, the presidents of three thriving colleges-E. Wilson Lyon of coeducational Pomona, Frederick Hard of Scripps College (for women) and George Benson of Claremont Men's College-filed in solemn procession for a special ceremony. As they do every two years, the three were meeting to proclaim which of them would serve as next provost of a fourth college, the Claremont Graduate School. This year, it happened to be President Hard's turn to take over; but the ceremony itself involved more than an exchange of titles. It was all part of an experiment that exists...
...Italy, a voice broke into the scheduled program of the government radio. "This is a special announcement." Italians thrilled at the news. Newspapers, except those of the far left, broke out their big type to proclaim AN ACT OF JUSTICE. Wrote Italy's leading daily, Corriere della Sera: "What happened has been to a great extent the work of a woman, of Mrs. [Clare Boothe] Luce, and it is right and necessary that the Italian people know it . . . Perhaps one day we will learn with what patience, intelligence and diplomatic tact Mrs. Luce succeeded in bringing this arduous task...
...said Sir Winston, "a word about myself." He seemed tired, and his eyes were moist, but with an effort he roused himself for the simple peroration that would proclaim to the world that Churchill is staying put. "If I stay on for the time being, bearing the burden at my age, it is not because of love for power or office. I have had an ample feast of both. If I stay, it is because I have the feeling that I may, through things that have happened, have an influence on what I care about above all else-the building...