Word: sternly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Perhaps the most famous of Santayana's Lampoon drawings is one which appeared as the lead cartoon in one issue. Entitled "Catechism Modernized," it shows a stern teacher testing a boy of about eight on his catechism. The dialog runs...
...Spanish mystic John of the Cross, were selected twice. Poet Noyes has written about St. John the Evangelist as the most "intuitive" of the Apostles. George Lamb, a young British Catholic, discusses St. Simeon Stylites, the 5th century hermit who spent 37 years sitting on a pillar. Psychiatrist Karl Stern writes about St. Théreèse of Lisieux, a bourgeois French girl who died in 1897, at 24, in a Carmelite cloister. Also included: one Pope, Pius V; two Jesuits, Ignatius Loyola and his missionary follower Francis Xavier; one parish priest, St. Jean Vianney, the 19th century cure...
...significance of the Wisconsin primary was in how the voters of one of the more enlightened states reacted to the debate over McCarthyism. Joe was up against stern opposition. His opponent, Lawyer Len Schmitt, was able and well known. Schmitt put on a vigorous, adequately financed campaign in which he got a respectful hearing. Wisconsin law allows members of one party to vote in the other's primary, and Democrats were strongly urged to get in there and beat Joe. Democrats by the thousands apparently did vote in the Republican primary -but most of them voted for McCarthy...
That settled, the league got down to business in an atmosphere of stern common sense, decided to 1) stop wailing about the Palestine refugees, and get down to drafting concrete proposals for their resettlement; 2) back Lebanon for the seat on the U.N. Security Council soon to be vacated by Turkey...
...little discussion ... of the conditions for coexistence [with Russia] and probably will get little during the campaign. Unless and until Americans are prepared by prolonged public consideration of what it will be necessary to concede, negotiations may make little progress . . . There has been so much emphasis on ... showing a stern, tough face to the Russians that there has been little useful discussion of the bargaining alternatives...