Word: pursuits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last previous cleric to be publicly unfrocked for adultery, the late Rector of Stiffkey, turned circus performer and was devoured by a lion. Thomas, choosing a safer pursuit, has turned journalist. Even as the congregation prayed hopefully for the vicar's "true repentance and amendment of life," Thomas was cheerfully splashing his life story across the front pages of the Sunday newspapers. As he told it, his plight was that female parishioners continually threw themselves at him. Said Thomas: "When I look back upon my years as a minister of the Gospel, I am by no means cast down...
...check their guns at the door, and we can't escape the fact that they need activity." From the intent look of her kids, who confine their whoops and hollers entirely to the playground, she seems to have the problem in hand. Whitby is well launched in a pursuit not always found in U.S. schools: "introducing the joy of learning to children at an early...
...must be emphasized that President Pusey's errors have been largely tactical ones, unfortunate bumblings in the pursuit of usually sound goals. The lesson that the President must learn is that the governing of Harvard, like the governing of any institution, is a matter of politics. And in politics good intentions are not enough...
Time to Sing Bass. In the midst of his cold war harassments, Kennedy kept up his pursuit of national unity, begun the week before in face-to-face talks with Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon and Arizona's Republican Senator Barry Goldwater. Last week, filling out the G.O.P. spectrum, he met with New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller at the White House, and later, visiting New York City for the first time since his inauguration huddled with Elder Republicans Herbert Hoover and Douglas MacArthur...
...statement contradicts the Kennedy Administration's assumption that must be overthrown and that the question remaining is one of method. The American effort in this direction "seriously endangers the pursuit of our most vital interests in world affairs," the statement claims...