Word: stern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...large cities. Mayors would act under the orders of the military commanders. Did that act presage an authoritarian regime? Most observers thought not. Brazil faced a dangerous situation created by its Communists in the first months of its new constitutional freedom, and felt it necessary to use stern measures to meet the threat. But Rio's sober Correio da Manha warned: ". . . Now more than ever, democrats must be vigilant in the face of the intentions and motives of the reactionaries, fascists, integralistas and remnants of [Vargas'] New State...
...Lord answered Job out the Whirlwind" provides an example. Beneath the figure of God, the bodies of Job's friends bend, and their backs and the long, curved lines of the whirlwind form a rhythm of line which focuses the eye on the divine figure. His outstretched arms and stern face at once accuse and protect. The deep blue of the sky highlights the figures and at the same time expresses the mystery and fearfulness of heaven, while the whirling lines intensify the movement. But though the colors are forceful and appropriate, it is Blake's drawing that gives...
...Cathedral tolled. Hundreds of Belgians fell in behind the procession as a caisson bore the casket to a pier on the Scheldt. There the casket of John X joined 5,599 others in the hold of the U.S. Army transport Joseph V. Connolly, strung with flowers from bow to stern. While U.S. Thunderbolts from Germany dipped aloft, the Connolly steamed down the Scheldt, its banks lined with thousands of silent Belgians...
Alexander C. Suczek '50 as Gadshill; Stephen P. Clement '51 as Peto; Arthur Levine '47 as Bardolph; Sherman H. Hawkins '51 as Francis; George A. Clugston '50 as Sheriff; W.F. Scott III '50, William A. Gaston '51, James K. Dow, Jr. '50, Heinz P. Stern '50, Robert D. Ouimet '51, Robert P. Hubbard '51, and Lucian C. E. Parlata...
...common Lord, cannot achieve a little more charity in their relations to each other, they have no right to speak to the world or claim to have any balm for the world's hatreds and mistrusts." Even partisans of each faith will admit some justice in the stern, three-point scolding Niebuhr administers to both sides. Excerpts...