Word: retainers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Somerset Maugham was given a belated 75th birthday party by Manhattan's Overseas Press Club. He blew out a single candle and offered a serene opinion on Britain's future: "There can be no reason to fear for the nation so long as the women of England retain their magnificent virility...
Last week the battle was in full swing. A "Committee to Retain Our Rector" was busy ringing the doorbells of Holy Trinity's 400-odd voting members, claimed to have 270 signatures already. Though not necessarily agreeing with the Melish political views, the committee's statement said: "We all do agree . . . that they have a right, as we do, to their personal political beliefs, and the further right to engage in such activities, as citizens or as ministers, as their consciences demand...
Bishop Wurm had not only succeeded in uniting the Protestant churches administratively ; he had also taken a significant step towards a spiritual unification. The new constitution, while allowing each church to retain its own viewpoint on Holy Communion, states that all German Protestants can partake of the sacrament in any German Protestant church. When the constitution was finally passed after five days of heated debate, Bishop Wurm declared: "The new German Evangelical Church is not yet a mighty cathedral; it is still a modest hut. But it is a hut in which the gospel is at home, and in which...
...European novels. He is a man with a highly developed taste for disaster; he accepts fear as a normal condition and death as less to be feared than the constant flight from it. Usually a disenchanted revolutionary, he feels that only in acts of simple decency can a man retain his humanity. He trusts nothing else...
...Barry, the translator, has chosen to retain certain odd twists in the dialogue which tend to make the audience conscious of the translation. Now, is the good? In "Red Gloves," for example, the absence of such twists and literally-translated idiomatic expressions made the play more direct and forceful, the hand of the middle-man not being there. However, a play with a hero such as this Pierre Renault is probably not creditable in the land of Washington and the Cherry Tree. Such people can flourish in foreign soils, and well. But not here. So Mr. Barry has left...