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...only say with all possible respect that if the late President really was as he is here presented-so dedicated a public servant, so faithful a husband and devoted a father, so witty, learned, and profound an orator, writer, and thinker, so genial a friend, prayerful a Christian, and enlightened a statesman-he is better off in Heaven, where, according to an electoral oration in Ohio by Vice President-elect Hubert Humphrey, we may now confidently assume...
...churchmen at Tutzing chosen Rodger? Most council observers believed that the executive committee wanted to rearrange the power structure of the ecumenical movement. The general secretary is technically a servant of the council's 209 member churches, but some clerics felt that Visser 't Hooft runs the council as a private fief. With the little-known and unassertive Rodger in office, the executive committee would clearly have more authority...
...Others in the field were spread. Kim Stanley easily won the best-actress award for her part as a medium in Director Bryan Forbes's Seance on a Wet Afternoon. The best director was Stanley Kubrick of Dr. Strangelove, and the best screenwriter was Harold Pinter, for The Servant. The best foreign-language picture of the year was Jean-Paul Belmondo's That Man from...
...wait, pathetically telling all to the patient Lady Mount-Temple and her husband. If Rosie were to love another, he wrote, "I would do all for her - bear - if it were necessary -to see them together all day - be their footman and walk behind them - nay - be their servant after they were married - if they needed it - I don't think her father loves her so well as that." He and Rosie, who kept stalling him off, never married. Instead, they grew mad together. She deteriorated more quickly; the years before her death at 27 were clouded with mental...
...Composer George Frederick Handel, plagued by ill health and spurned by a once-adoring public, isolated himself in his London house to work on a new oratorio. Falling into an almost trancelike state, he slaved feverishly day and night with little food or sleep. At one point a servant found him at his desk, tears streaming down his face. "I did think I did see all Heaven before me," Handel cried, "and the great God himself!" After 23 days Handel emerged with his monumental Messiah, the profoundly moving testament of Christian faith that has be come the most revered...