Word: relentless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Honored Pageant. There was a narrower time, and it lasted well into Churchill's own youth, when a great state occasion was one of the few events that brought spectacle into most people's lives. Today, in an age of relentless distractions, when spectacle shouts from countless posters, pages and screens, pageantry must compete for attention, and in this sense it is diminished. But it is also more affecting than ever when, as in Churchill's case, it goes so plainly beyond show and becomes an expression of continuity between a nation's past...
Giving in to relentless pressure from you, the HCUA decided to replace itself and submitted a proposed constitution to the college for consideration. In the month preceding the referendum, at least five House Committees passed resolutions endorsing the new constitution and none were opposed to it. Of course, you would never report this as it just is not newsworthy. After all, these committees are only the elected representatives of the Harvard Houses. But when, on the day before the referendum, a few sophomores said they did not like the proposed constitution because it was weak, you responded with a full...
From that position, Gandar has since led a relentless crusade against Verwoerd's government. In the elections of 1961, the Mail was the only big newspaper to pledge undiluted support to South Africa's new, anti-Verwoerd, Progressive Party. "Immensely heartening," said Gandar, after the Progressives succeeded in sending a single candidate, Mrs. Helen Suzman, to Parliament...
Yours is a land of ancient culture, the cradle of great religions, the home of a nation that has sought God with relentless desire. Rarely has this longing for God been expressed with words so full of the spirit of Advent as in your sacred books many centuries before Christ: "From the unreal lead me to the real, from darkness lead me to light, from death lead me to immortality...
...such a pilgrimage could not be. The Vatican, the Indian government, the relentless exigencies of the press, and even Air India foiled the Pope. The airline closed off part of the first-class compartment, provided a raven-haired stewardess in a striped silk sari, and painted the papal coat of arms on the plane. The Indians, as might have been foreseen, discouraged any extensive visits to the poor as an uncalled-for stress on the country's poverty. The Vatican sent along cardinals and priests and supplied tapes of Handel and Vivaldi to be played on the plane. Photographers...