Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mother's Son." In his exterior, Juscelino Kubitschek resembles his handsome father, João Oliveira, a gay, clever but improvident amateur poet, who died when Juscelino was two. Inside, he is far more like his prim, pious mother Júlia. Stern Widow Júlia reared the boy and his older sister Maria on a schoolteacher's salary. Harried and embittered by poverty, Júlia drilled into her son a fierce will to succeed. Now a hale-looking 83, she still calls him by his boyhood nickname...
...Sydney, Australia, to weigh a similar subject: Christianity's plans and strategy for Southeast Asia. In the night sky, during the meeting, big searchlights formed a luminous cross, but the council's mood was less glowing. A note almost of supplication toward Asians and of stern self-criticism were evident. Said Yale's Dean Listen Pope: "Divided and rent asunder in its own life, the church itself speaks in broken accents and sometimes seems to add to the confusion of tongues. The nations of the world might understandably reply to the church's plea for international...
...People. No matter what they performed, it would be hard to resist a show that included Pianist Artur Rubinstein, Violinist Isaac Stern, Cellist Gregor Piatigorsky, and such vocalists as Marian Anderson, Renata Tebaldi, Zinka Milanov, Risë Stevens, Blanche Thebom, Roberta Peters, Mildred Miller. Jan Peerce, Jussi Bjoerling, Leonard Warren. What they performed was aimed at the millions-arias from Pagliacci, The Tales of Hoffmann, Tosca, Carmen, a Chopin Polonaise, a movement from the Mendelssohn violin concerto. It was seen or heard by an estimated 23 million people...
Gruenther confronted the 15-nation NATO council with the choice. If they were unwilling to supply more men to fight, they would have to accept the atom. The stern logic of numbers prevailed over the cold horrors of the new science. In December 1954 the NATO council approved the new strategy...
Pope Pius XII granted one audience last week that was not listed in Osservatore Romano, and from which the Vatican's photographer was barred. The visitor was Germany's leading Protestant prelate, stern, spike-bearded Bishop Otto Dibelius of the Evangelical Church...