Word: saint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since then, V.M.I. has had a more peaceful history, even though its sons have not. One of its first instructors, now the patron saint of V.M.I., was General Stonewall Jackson (who led the cadets to Richmond in 1861). During World War II, 4,000 of V.M.I.'s 6,000 living graduates were in uniform, and 57 of them rose to general-officer rank. Among V.M.I. alumni now on the Korean front: Lieut. General Lemuel C. Shepherd, commander of the Fleet Marine Force in the Pacific; Lieut. General Edward M. Almond, commander of the X Corps; Major General Clark...
...made the trip, took along his first major work of sculpture, End of the Trail, a statue of a lean Indian sitting exhausted on his rack-ribbed horse. The work won him Paris recognition, a $1,000 prize and a job as assistant to Augustus Saint-Gaudens. Since that day, End, of the Trail has become one of the best-known and most frequently reproduced pieces of sculpture ever made by an American...
Jose Iturbi, at 55, is a pianist who is regarded by a vast public as a saint of the keyboard, by critics as a fallen angel. Twenty-two years ago, when Valencia-born Jose made his U.S. debut, there were hardly enough superlatives to fit his playing. But last March, after his first Carnegie Hall recital in six years, the same judges shook their saddened heads, damned him as a perfunctory performer. They conceded that Iturbi still had his nimble technique, delicate shadings and tone colors. But, as the Herald Tribune's Jerome D. Bohm put it, that made...
...chosen was not easy for Geneviève (the name she took as a nun, from the patron saint of Paris). Says the abbess: "Geneviève wanted to arrive all at once. She tried too hard." The rigorous austerities of the Benedictines, whose daily Mass begins at 5 a.m., broke her health;for 22 years she remained a novice...
...would have called on the West to fight them with non-violent weapons, as he suggested that the Nazis should be fought. The West might not have been able, or fit, to follow that advice, but the moral conflict would have been clear: a conflict between a saint and worldly men. The conflict between Nehru and the West is not a conflict between saintliness and worldliness, but between two forms of worldliness-Nehru's neutralism masquerading as otherworldliness. As one writer on India, Herrymon Maurer, has put it: "[Nehru's] middle ground is the dangerous ground: it provides...