Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Personality. From the moment he arrived amid frenetic cheers at the air, he was taken up by Nyasaland's 3,000,000 blacks. A gnomelike, soberly dressed man who neither drinks nor smokes, he could speak calmly of the necessity of proving "that we are responsible people." but, in a sudden shift of mood, he might then begin banging the table in his surgery or shrieking to a mob from a platform: "To hell with federation...
...Protestants are free to carry out their simple services unmolested. Pastors speak their minds from their pulpits without fear that there are police observers in the congregation. "Of course not," quipped one nonchurchgoing Spaniard last week. "The police are afraid to send observers into the Protestant churches. They might be converted...
...ideology," commented president Hastings Wyman '61, "our group would in general support right-to-work laws, and express serious reservations about the UN." Regarding Eisenhower as "too liberal," the League has dined with an associate of Gen. MacArthur, and hopes Bill Buckley of the National Review will speak to them this Spring...
Murray Yeager, of the School of Public Relations and Communications at B.U., will speak on the difference between stage and television techniques and take the group on a tour of the closed circuit network which he directs...
...approaching a masterpiece, show simple courtesy, suggests Author Eliot: let the painting speak first. This demands "a kind of reverence, a still gratitude, but definitely not admiration. The moment one stops to say. 'Isn't that lovely!' one is in danger of losing the way." Beauty's shadow is significance: "Every great painting shows something seen plus something seen into . . . sight and insight." If the surface story is only half the story in a painting, the "latent content" is the other half, the question the artist answered without consciously asking...