Word: riche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...same length as the Gettysburg address. Drawing on another American tradition, the telethon, he takes 6 hours and 37 minutes to deliver it. In the speech, Johnson stresses the War on Poverty and lashes out at "those centers of population in this beloved country where the disparity between the rich and the poor is only too evident, where evil is inevitably spawned to clog the bloodstream of our nation. These centers --suburban Phoenix, suburban Los Angeles--must be rehabilitated," he emphasizes...
HEINRICH BIBER: EIGHT SONATAS FOR VIO LIN AND CONTINUO (2 LPs; Cambridge). Although the Baroque revival has dredged up a good deal of dross, it has also led to the discovery of some golden nuggets. Sonya Monosoff plays these with rich tone and temperament and gets colors seldom heard today, for Biber liked to use scordatura, an unorthodox tuning of the strings...
With an emotionalism that sounds slightly too rich in any language but French, Malraux noted that when Moulin was seized by the Gestapo, "the destiny of the Resistance depended upon the courage of this man. And here today in France triumphant we have the victory of this silence so terribly paid for." Dramatically addressing the dead Moulin, Malraux cried: "You, leader of the martyred Resistance fighters who died in cellars, look with your empty eye sockets at all the women in black who now keep watch over our companions!" Malraux closed with an appeal to the 16 million Frenchmen...
...theology of the future must have. It will be ecumenical. "Renewal is the invitation to a common task," says the Swiss Catholic theologian Hans Küng. "Everything today is interdependent." It will be existential. "Theology is overdeveloped in systems and arguments," says French Dominican Pierre Liege, "and not rich enough in concrete applications to existential problems. As it progresses, it will turn more to the questions of the significance of human life and the application of the Christian message to the existential circumstance." It will also be open to the insights of science and non-Christian faiths, even...
During that "glorious time of great too much," as Poet Leigh Hunt described an English Christmas, the groaning board of the rich and titled is customarily supplied by a unique emporium named Fortnum & Mason Ltd. Fortnum's is the world's only grocery with wall-to-wall carpeting, chandeliers and morning-coated clerks, who preside over stacks of specialty foods that can quickly run a grocery order to sky-high figures. Christmas accounts for 25% of Fortnum's business; last week 700 employees hustled to fill orders from eminent customers for such items as Beluga caviar...