Word: speak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lombardi recently traveled to Mexico, gave a special course to 100 bishops, including Cardinal Luque. gathered from all Latin America. His student-priests can use the church organization as an ear to the ground that no secret police force can match. When chances of success are reasonably safe, they speak out. In 93% Catholic Latin America, it is a plan of action that should make the sturdiest strongman shiver...
...speak too often of American collectors who have French or Italian castles transported stone by stone across the Atlantic," a contrite French art critic wrote last week. Then he added, with an air of surprise: "Robert Lehman, the banker from New York who is currently showing 300 of his treasures at the Orangerie des Tuileries is, truth to tell, an amateur of art with the best of taste." For once the rest of Paris' many-hued press was in agreement ; the Louvre's guest show for the summer was a smash hit and the talk of Paris. Editorialized...
...forget to speak scornfully of the Victorian Age, there will be time for meekness when you try to better it." With that challenging epigraph borrowed from James M. (Peter Pan) Barrie, a Philadelphia artist named John Maass has written a book (The Gingerbread Age; Rinehart; $7.95) defending-of all things -American Victorian architecture. "This was no mean age," says Author Maass. "In every field of human endeavor, the mid-19th century was a time of frenetic activity and massive achievement. Is it true that the generation which constructed the transatlantic cable and the transcontinental railroad was unable to build...
Citation: "Skilled and creative in your employment of legal knowledge, sensitive arbiter of social conflicts, you speak for the finest tradition of Anglo-American...
Kishi's tour of Southeast Asia was designed as a prelude to his U.S. visit: he wanted to claim to speak for Asian opinion. In New Delhi Kishi outlined to Jawaharlal Nehru his own plan for a U.S.-financed billion-dollar Asian development program, listened in mild surprise when Nehru labeled the idea "American aid in disguise." In Rangoon Kishi impressed his Burmese hosts with Japan's desire to supply technical know-how to other Asian nations. Somewhere along the way he came down with a case of dysentery. (It may be pure coincidence, but the head...