Word: stalwartness
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...Deal stalwart, a student and longtime friend of liberal Justice Douglas, Fortas is expected to maintain the court's current liberal, activist majority-with a special interest in civil liberties. His approach can be expected to differ only in degree from that of Arthur Goldberg, whose seat-the so-called Jewish seat-he takes on the court. But Fortas will bring with him to the bench a special problem. His long and intimate friendship with the President and his handling of some of the more difficult episodes in the Johnson catalogue will be constantly remembered. That means that both...
...Lollobrigida, the outrageously accomplished predator of Monsignor Cupid, ensnares the staid nephew (Jean Sorel) of a churchman attending the Vatican Council in Rome. As a hotelkeeper who offers practically unlimited amenities, Gina tricks the gullible monsignor (Akim Tamiroff) into acting as her go-between, unwittingly goading the stalwart young innocent to her bed. How she does it is revealed by Director Mauro Bolognini with style, polish and cinematic fluidity...
Main Wish. Not long ago, Baldwin was voted a membership in the Kusadasi City Club as its only foreign member, and he is also a stalwart of the local Sports Club, on behalf of which he is now working on a plan to bring in groups of foreign hunters. The police no longer keep any watch over their popular prisoner, who could easily escape by rowing the few miles across to the Greek island of Samos. Says Sub-Governor Turk: "Ken came here unknown and without friends. But today we in Kusadasi, all of us, consider...
Half a Sixpence, a musical adapted from H. G. Wells's novel Kipps, comes from that nostalgic era that Kenneth Tynan once called "timeless Edwardia" ?a period now thought to have been simple, stalwart, gracious, leisurely, and completely immune to the fretful complexities of modern life...
...Duan, a Peking-style hardliner. And last week, in a cabinet shuffle that had Ho-watchers from Washington to Moscow scratching their heads, the standing committee of the National Assembly met in extraordinary session to replace Ho's hand-picked Foreign Minister Xuan Thuy with another pro-Peking stalwart named Nguyen Duy Trinh. The assumption: Thuy had urged negotiations with the U.S. before American bombs could wipe out North Viet Nam's industries...