Word: ring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TIME'S effort to establish the Vice President as something other than an errand boy had a phony ring to it [Feb. 23.] If the President has expanded the role of the Vice President, it must be classified information. About the only new addition to Lyndon's position is heading the National Aeronautics and Space Council, and, no doubt, the Texan must find outer space rather lonely and cold...
...scene to scene, Henry Fonda visibly erodes with stoic dignity. A trifle over-animated, Olivia de Havilland nonetheless grows in gallantry and warmth. But as the play empties into the bowl over which the hero slits his wrists, it seems to leave behind it no revelation, only a stubborn ring of illusions...
...Modern Art museums bought his work; so did such collectors as Nelson Rockefeller and Peggy Guggenheim. But Congdon shrank from success. He traveled widely through the Mediterranean in search of new images, drank as a stimulus to creation. "Each painting," he wrote, "seemed to redeem me, as the life-ring saves the drowning man. I began to see in each painting a stay against the eventual death sentence...
...philosophy about what he is doing," says the Air Force's Colonel Keith Lindell, one of the astronauts' training officers, "and there's more to it than personal glory. This is not a grab-the-brass-ring...
Over the main entrance of the red brick bullring, on the western edge of Lima, hung a sign: "Jesús dijo: yo soy el camino y la verdad y la vida" (Jesus said: I am the way and the truth and the light). Within the ring, 12,000 Peruvians chewed on anticuchos (chunks of grilled beef heart) or sipped chicha (a beer made of corn). There was a hymn, a collection; then a Peruvian missionary announced that they would hear from "the man known all the world over as the Human Bible." In this setting, Baptist Preacher Billy Graham...