Word: retains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although the four pieces span only a half-century in time, they contrast greatly in style. While the Mahler songs express a profound disillusionment, the Bloch and Ravel struggle to retain vitality by assimilating new elements--jazz and modality--and the Kennan by Restricting its own scope...
Although it had been reported that the Company wished to retain its present station primarily because of its model construction, Wiggins declared that such an argument has not entered the negotiations recently. He noted, however, that Gulf was worried about "what they call their Colonial architecture...
...five clubs all have good credentials, and broke camp with understandable confidence. The fans in St. Louis are looking for their first flag in fifteen years, but the Cardinals will be lucky to retain their spot in the first division. With Larry Jackson suffering a fractured jaw, the Card pitching staff looks thin. Behind Ernie Broglio and Lindy MacDaniel stand assorted hangers-on and voices from the past. Only former Globetrotter Bob Gibson stands a chance to bolster the staff...
Hesburgh aims to break free of any narrow Catholic mold-yet retain the "moral dimension" of Catholic teaching. "This moral belief," says he, "is simply the dignity of man as a child of God. All branches of knowledge are seen as being of service to man." Notre Dame's business school, for example, has a separate course on business ethics. In English classes, famed Professor Frank O'Malley focuses on such themes as the nature of suffering. Hesburgh himself is particularly interested in science: "I don't sit around worrying that tomorrow science is going to come...
...Kennedy concluded their conversations with a joint communique that was deliberately and blandly nonspecific about proposed actions of the two nations. "We are in complete agreement," said the communique, "as to the gravity and depth of the danger in the present world situation for those nations who wish to retain their independence and the priceless right of choice." Afterward, in an informal farewell in the White House Rose Garden, President Kennedy summed up the essence of the meetings with Yankee crispness: "It has been the greatest possible pleasure to have had this opportunity to establish close and, I think, highly...