Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they are free of the pedantry and metaphysical conceits that make his other poems the kind you have to re-read. This is not to say that it is easy to understand Eliot's mysticism. It is only to say that one can follow Eliot's emotion in their stern music better than in any of his other poems. He read the last ("my best"), called "Little Gidding," and he enchanted his audience: the lines spread and flowed, sometimes it was a sermon, sometimes an elegy, and always it was harmonious and beautiful--not at all like Eliot's older...
Every adjective about the Enterprise seems to be a superlative. Displacing 85,350 tons, it is the biggest ship in the world, surpasses the Queen Elizabeth by 8,000 tons and costs an estimated $500 million. From stem to stern, the Enterprise measures 1,040 ft.-roughly the height of the 102-story Empire State Building. Yet the hefty Enterprise handles like a PT boat. In its first trials last month, it surged through the Atlantic at speeds of more than 35 knots, accelerated from a standstill to top speed so rapidly that accompanying destroyers were left wallowing far behind...
...nation's great hastened to his hospital door. First on the scene was Lyndon Johnson, whom Rayburn had helped raise from a political neophyte to the vice-presidency. Then came President Kennedy, making a 3,000-mile round trip to visit at the bedside of the stern-faced Speaker he had first known when he was a freshman Congressman from Massachusetts. "They don't make them like that any more," said Kennedy. "He has the courage of ten men." Finally came Harry Truman, who on that April day in 1945 was in Rayburn's Capitol hideaway...
Hudson also brought a concentration on "religious consciousness"-the stern Calvinist doctrine that makes a minister duty-bound to remind members that they are sinners. In place of tranquilizing theology he gave sermons on "Who Owns Your Soul?" ("Is it an insurance company, a bank, a labor union or an industry?"), on "The Church in Our World" ("It neither disturbs nor comforts"), and on the pricklier passages of the Sermon on the Mount. "My contention," he says, "is that the Gospel applies not to 1st century man but to 20th century...
Cambridge, according to Miss Sayre, is "stern and permanent," "dirtier than New York," and so influenced by "Dead Puritans" that it made the author continually feel guilty...