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This week, a fortnight after doing a considerable survey of the quality of new-style Protestant sermons, we bring a four-color look at the Roman Catholics "general staff," the College of Cardinals. And though our springboard is the formal installation last week of ten new cardinals, we have been preparing for the event for two years, ever since Pope John XXIII named the first Negro and Japanese cardinals in history. Photographer David Lees in Rome was asked to shoot as many cardinals on the wing as he could, and whenever he could. His first opportunity came at a Eucharistic...
...Mississippi as a Freedom Rider; he is still out on $500 bond after a breach-of-peace arrest. His fellow assemblymen, both Democratic and Republican, groan pointedly when Lane rises to deliver one of his long and emotional speeches. He clearly hopes to make his assault against Carlino a springboard for a try this year for Congress...
...Springboard. The result was no clear-cut victory for the U.S.; but it was certainly a defeat for Cuba. If only 14 nations voted to exclude Cuba from the inter-American system, there were 20 votes in favor of Cuba's immediate exclusion from the Inter-American Defense Board, and 16 votes not only to suspend arms trade with Cuba but to instruct the OAS Council to "study the feasibility and desirability of extending the suspension" to other items. At week's end, using the resolution as a springboard, the U.S. let it be known that...
Having incorporated the basic tenets of Freudian theory as it existed in 1923 into his private mystical world view, Groddeck provided a springboard from which Freud was later able to add the important model of dynamic conflict among the Id, Ego, and Superego to his previous topographical (unconscious-preconscious-conscious) model...
Lunge, Dart, Pierce. Unlike the contemporary cubists, who had moved steadily away from subject matter, the futurists depended on subjects as their springboard. Gino Severini prized abstract, rhythmic forms that could evoke associations involving all the senses. His Dynamic Hieroglyph of the Bal Tabarin (see color) is a jumbled panorama of twirling skirts, a laughing face, the monocle of an aristocratic cafégoer, hints of music and noise through words ("valse," "polka," "bowling...