Word: sheen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PORTIA SHEEN Kowloon, Hong Kong...
...peers dourly at the TV camera through opaque, black-rimmed glasses, moves about the studio with the air of someone mentally counting his steps, speaks in a professorial baritone surcharged with a raspy German accent. He has none of Billy Graham's charismatic fervor, or Fulton Sheen's high-gloss oratory; in a tired-blood contest, he would probably run a dead heat with Ed Sullivan...
...bill creating the Defense Department was largely his. Ironically, Forrestal was appointed to the job he considered too big. "This office will probably be the greatest cemetery for dead cats in history," he grumbled in words that were eerily prophetic. "I shall probably need the combined attention of Fulton Sheen and the entire psychiatric profession by the end of another year...
...before 1965-Catholic bishops will have more authority than they now exercise. They may also look less like figures out of a medieval tableau, since many are concerned about the need for the church to accept simplicity and apostolic poverty. Recently, New York's Auxiliary Bishop Fulton J. Sheen suggested that laymen and parish priests should, like monks or nuns, take vows of poverty. And in a letter to his "brothers in the episcopate," Rio's Auxiliary Archbishop Helder Pessoa Camara urged the fathers of the council to drop their titles of "excellency" and "eminence" and much...
...convictions that any other version of the Viet Nam story is quickly dismissed as the fancy of a bemused observer. Many of the correspondents seem reluctant to give splash treatment to anything that smacks of military victory in the ugly war against the Communists, since this would take the sheen off the theory that the infection of the Buddhist troubles in Saigon is demoralizing the government troops, and weakens the argument that defeat is inevitable so long as Diem is in power. When there is a defeat, the color is rich and flowing; trend stories are quickly cranked up. Last...