Word: reading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your July 1 cover story, "The Temple Builder," provides a record and an insight to the thinking of our Supreme Court which every literate American should read. The court's recent decisions are terrifying. Did Khrushchev and Chou En-lai sit in on those historic decisions? If not, they were well represented (except for Tom Clark, who recognized the "clear and present danger...
...Read with interest your June 3 article concerning Protestants and the Church of Scotland in the early 17th century. Jenny Geddes threw that "cutty stool" towards the head of my distant, illustrious relative, Dean James Hanna, who was reading the Collect for the Seventh Sunday after Trinity. It was July 23, 1637, and the people in St. Giles excitedly awaited the service book, which had been revised and "stamped" by Archbishops Laud and Wren. Its sponsors chose the most explosive hour possible. Thus, the infamous Jenny hurled the stool (see cut) and cried: "How dare you to say 'mass...
...When he reads bedtime stories to his three button-nosed girls-Susan, 5^, Elizabeth, 4, and Patricia, 2^-Birdie never gets away from the great American game. "Instead of Jack and Jill going up the hill," says Mary, "Birdie will say, 'Jack went out, picked up a bat and hit a home run.' Instead of Peter Rabbit going under the fence into Mr. Whatshisname's garden, he'll say, 'And Peter Rabbit got a base on balls and Mopsy was up next.' Sometimes I pick up the same story and the children...
...pardonably proud of the Dickensian way he had come; he had read David Copper field 101 times. The son of Scotch-Irish immigrants, Weir quit school at 15 to support his widowed mother, worked as a $3-a-week office boy for a Pittsburgh wire company, later said he did "not consider it a handicap for a boy in his teens to have to go to work. Being forced to earn one's living strengthens character, equips for bigger battles." By 1905 Weir was manager of a U.S. Steel Corp. plant; at 30 he bought a wheezing West Virginia...
...young men on a bloody course of vengeance in obedience to the private laws of a medieval feud between great families. The somberest of these gallants falls to the King's men when his mistress cuts his bowstring. The story seems like mere costume drama until it is read beside A Case of Conscience, in which the stone-faced chapel puritans of mid-Victorian times re-enact a similar feud-this time in terms of a squalid yet somehow splendid squabble over the theology and the bricks and mortar of the Resmond Street Independent Church...