Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Abroad, Smuts is considered a great world statesman. At home, where Malan edged him from office by a narrow margin in 1948, Smuts is a politician who stands for internationalism and relative liberalism on the race question, while Malan's nationalism and increasingly stern apartheid (race segregation) bring tension nearer the snapping point in a nation one-fifth white and four-fifths black...
...announced that he had overcome Jachym's personal apprehensions, ordered both Innitzer and Jachym to Rome. There, in the church of Santa Maria dell' Anima, Cardinal Innitzer intoned the solemn Mass and performed the ceremony of consecrating the new bishop. Msgr. Jachym, kneeling before the cardinal, was stern-faced as he made his responses. After the ceremony, leaning for the first time on his pastoral staff, Jachym walked firmly from the church, his hand lifted in blessing, his eyes downcast...
...stern moralists who condemn Restoration comedy as merely vulgar should go and see the Brattle Theatre's production of Wycherley's "The Country Wife." They will not think the acted play less bawdy than the published play; but they might learn, in the two and a half hours of an excellent play excellently produced, that "The Country Wife" is more than merely crude...
...suggested at the beginning of this review that the stern moralists should see "The Country Wife"; by this I did not mean that the not-so-stern--and perhaps the immoral--should avoid it. Far from it. This is an almost perfect production of a very funny play; and the casual should attend it as much for entertainment as the serious for disabusement...
...lupines, three ships dropped anchor in Ancona harbor. On two of them, the U.S. destroyers Glennon and George K. MacKenzie, she wasted no attention, but her heart went out to the black, unkempt hull of the third ship. It was the Soviet freighter Dmitry Pozharsky and from its stern flapped a ragged red flag. With tears in her eyes Palmira called out to her eldest daughter, "Look, Roma, it's come." Then the two scurried off through Ancona's alleyways, routing out 500 women comrades to welcome the Russians...