Word: sole
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rusk's concept of his job has kept him out of the headlines. He wholeheartedly agrees with John Marshall, the great 19th century Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, that "the President is the sole organ of the nation in its external relations." As he sees it, his job is to act as adviser, briefing officer and administrator for the President, not as an initiator of policy in the tradition of John Foster Dulles or Dean Acheson. "It is possible," he once said, "for the President to delegate too much power to his Secretary of State." Under Kennedy, there...
...gods (see opposite page) -and sculpts them as half abstractions or stretched out almost like the stick figures of Giacometti. But where Giacometti shows man squeezed in the torture of existence, Capralos' bronze men are modeled with a stripped, surging nobility. In 1962, Capralos' sculptures were the sole occupants of the Greek pavilion at the Venice Biennale. There Manhattan Dealer Martha Jackson signed him up for his first U.S. show of >4 bronzes, now on view in her gallery...
Springfield traditionally makes its journey to Cambridge for the sole purpose of being thoroughly thrashed by the Crimson varsity. Although this trend is not likely to be reversed, Harvard's aquatic agglomeration, will not put on a demonstration comparable in quality to past years...
Proposed by German-born Augustin Cardinal Bea, the "Jewish Chapter" reflects Bea's concern over the way the Nazis were able to misuse Christian beliefs in oppressing Jews. By absolving the Jewish people of the sole responsibility for Christ's crucifixion, the chapter, Bea believes, would remove the key theological rationale for such pogroms. In itself, this aspect of the chapter could only meet with approval from most of the council members...
...stake is the fortune-which may prove to be worth as much as $300 million-left by the late Sarita Kenedy East. She was a granddaughter of Captain Mifflin Kenedy, who was co-founder of the famed King Ranch and later became sole owner of the neighboring La Parra Ranch-an empire of 400,000 acres and 25,000 head of cattle. Sarita was an aloof and eccentric widow who liked her whisky and was more at ease with her Mexican ranch hands than with her wealthy landowning neighbors...