Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...these poems, Honig most often adopts a position of removal from the subject he is treating, so that even his description of a very personal incident in "Do You Love Me?" combines dispassion with its emotional impact: ". . . Her dying sigh denies/The quiet settling idly on/His polished shoe. One blunt toe/Gleams back a flawless eye at him/As he dangles from the sigh." The poet reports single acts or aspects of the circus: the morality or the moral are implicit in the way he sees them and transmits them to the reader. And it is at this point that Honig the poet...
Mendès sipped water and calmly waited for quiet. The new committee, he said, should reform the party machinery, start up a vigorous propaganda campaign in the provinces, prepare a platform of "five or six clear ideas" for the 1956 elections. "Our party has differences of opinion," he said, "but it wants to go forward, to remain a party of the left. Our duty is to respond to the drive for fresh ideas which has been awakened all over the country." The delegates broke into La Marseillaise...
...About 2,000 parishes have already sent in pre-publication orders. Planning for the series got under way nine years ago when the Episcopal Church decided that the Sunday-school curriculum in too many parishes was little better than a pious device for providing some peace and quiet around the house on Sunday morning. After the problem was turned over to the church's Department of Christian Education, its current director, the Rev. David R. Hunter, launched a program of meticulous pretesting. Hundreds of weekend "Parish-Life Conferences" were held to prepare laymen for the new program, and mobile...
...after 1 a.m., and all was quiet on Kansas City's Benton Boulevard when a car pulled up short before one of the trim houses. Out stepped the driver and made his way to a sign in the front yard of No. 3714. Watching him from the window of his darkened house was the Rev. Earl T. Sturgess of Southeast Presbyterian Church. During the week he has watched many other motorists stop to examine his sign. It looks like a For Sale sign, like those in front of many houses in the neighborhood, but instead it reads...
...Yale Law School (class of '31). He joined the Manhattan law firm of White & Case, lawyers for Big Steel, and was its associate counsel during the investigation of the steel industry by the Temporary National Economic Committee shortly before World War II. A methodical worker with a quiet wit and a knack for getting along with people, Blough became U.S. Steel's general solicitor in 1942, and executive vice president four years...