Word: spite
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...charged official negligence. Last week, after four days of angry debate, the two splinter Socialists joined with the opposition in a no-confidence vote. One of the leftists, Finn Gustavsen, explained that the S.P.P. toppled Gerhardsen because "he has no longer any contact with the working class." There was spite involved, too; Gerhardsen recently appointed that old Communist target, ex-U.N. Secretary-General Trygve Lie, a staunch Laborite, to the post of Minister of Industry...
...friend observes that the difference between Anglicans and Lutherans is that of form v. content. Anglicans, via the B.C.P. and the episcopate, keep the form inviolate, even if theology runs helter-skelter. Lutherans, in spite of Helsinki, stand firmly on their Confessions, yet often go through the motions in the most outlandish manner, simply to demonstrate that form means nothing. Pray God that ere too long, the two of us will sit at the same table together-first to talk, ultimately to share the Supper of the Lord...
...trips invariably include, therefore, extensive speaking engagements and lectures at local universities. Over the years, he points out, the people have become friendlier and more understanding toward the U.S.; Reischauer sees every reason for this to continue, "basically because the truths are all on our side." In spite of this tendency, U.S. defense installations remain major sources of irritation. But even here, he claims, the Japanese are gradually realizing that defense may be necessary, after all. Still, it is not uncommon, however, for "throngs of Communists to flatter me by giving me attention and yelling 'Reischauer go home...
...spite of his retiring ways, Ramsey has already made considerable impact on the English Church. Like his predecessor, now Lord Fisher of Lambeth, he is a convinced ecumenicist, and serves as one of six co-presidents of the World Council of Churches. Last year he visited Moscow and Istanbul for theological discussions with Orthodox prelates on the prickly question of intercommunion. A close personal friend of Liverpool's Roman Catholic Archbishop John Heenan, who is the odds-on favorite to become the next English cardinal, Ramsey last year became the first Archbishop of Canterbury to lecture at Belgium...
Because of, and not in spite of these things, Pacific War Diary is a fine and valuable book. Nobody can read Fahey's endless and well-documented complaints about how little sleep he got without wondering how men could survive that way for months on end. Half-starved, sleepless, alternately boiled, roasted and half-drowned in tropic downpours, James Fahey, Seaman First Class, and 1,300 shipmates fought through from the Solomons to the surrender of Japan. Montpelier's guns blasted away furiously in a dozen Solomons engagements; Fahey complained of the noise in his ears. After...