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...nominated so far have all affected history in one way or another. Yet the people I cast my vote for have received comparatively little coverage in magazines or newspapers. They have, however, exercised a right that Americans of long ago fought for, and that many more Americans of today shun. It is the right to vote, and the people I nominate are the Venezuelans who defied death to vote two weeks ago. These people braved pro-Communist terrorism just to vote, when a little sprinkle is enough to make most of us stay home...
...business man in the Common Market - even the smugglers. Europeans have always been adept at slipping all sorts of contraband across their tangle of national boundaries, but the smugglers were usually small-time dealers in such items as coffee and cigarettes. Today's smugglers are sophisticated businessmen who shun 50 lbs. of coffee in favor of 50 tons of steel, or deal in complex electronic calculators rather than cigarettes. Nowhere in Europe do these "white-collar smugglers" thrive more than in West Germany, where harassed customs officials figure that roughly $160 million worth of smuggled goods a year gets...
...important this could be when a man must be prepared to meet his Maker. Nobody could have been more naive than Fahey. "It is an honor to be on the flagship," he opined when he was assigned to the light cruiser Montpelier, though veteran seamen knew enough to shun it. He childishly equated a raid up the Slot in the Solomon Islands by Montpelier's task force with a sortie up the Hudson to bombard New York...
...pellucid serenity of music. Since its inception in 1918, the Lewisohn concert series has fulfilled that function with zeal and occasional distinction. Of late, the masses seem to be flocking to the concrete-tiered stadium with somewhat less enthusiasm, and several topflight performers (Rubinstein, Isaac Stern and others) now shun it. For one thing, these and other artists are loath to face the New York critics under less than ideal conditions (too little rehearsal time, bad weather, bad acoustics). Concerts have dwindled from 65 in 1939 to 24 in 1962, attendance from...
Breeze of Change. And of course, merely asking questions was often to answer them-or at least to indicate how tinny and irrelevant conventional responses of the past were now. Should the church shun the secular world, clinging to the City of God in fear of contamination from the City of Man? That learned teacher Pius XII, as his encyclicals and allocutions make clear, firmly answered no. But Pius, for all his good will, remained a prisoner of the church's past. It was left to John XXIII -neither intellectual nor theologian-to throw open the windows and doors...