Word: streaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...public outcry with near-hysterical headlines. Trying to stave off the panic, Churchill at first nourished it last week by admitting: "We have not got [the facts]." But then he contradicted himself ("I am in almost hourly correspondence with the Government of the U.S."), and solicited from Washington a stream of confidential cables providing all the thermonuclear information that the U.S. could release under the terms of the McMahon (atomic security) Act. Then, in Commons, Churchill used it with devastating effect...
...weeks the outside world has been eagerly panning the stream of propaganda that pours out of Red China for nuggets of news about the health and whereabouts of Dictator Mao Tse-tung...
This week, in a book called Against the Stream (Philosophical Library; $3.75), a collection of Barth's recent writings, largely on church and state problems, appeared in the U.S. The book clarifies Earth's political position and partly explains its connection with his rigid theology, with which U.S. theologians, be they as "neo-orthodox" as Barth himself, increasingly disagree. By what he says, Neutralist Barth marks himself as actually an indiscriminate "participationist." The essence of his church-state philosophy: the church must participate in the affairs of any state, Communist or not. "The State," says Barth...
Golden Tablets. Next day, Douglas asked for more. In the early stages of debate, said he, it is Millikin's habit to "lie somewhat torpidly on the banks of the parliamentary stream. I once spent some time in the tropics ... I noticed the crocodile, the king of the tropical rivers, lying in the mud, apparently inattentive to what was going on but, if excited, springing up and, in a paroxysm of rage, lashing his tail and extending his giant jaws-a very formidable creature indeed." Millikin answered: "I do not mind being compared to the crocodile. If I were...
...have more hopes of Hartmann, more faith in him than in any of the boys." Few connoisseurs today would show such faith in Sadakichi's poems, e.g., the couplets that Biographer Fowler uses as chapter headings. Samples: "I made a bed of sun and sand / Beside some vanished stream"; "In this torn sea of arabesques / Looms there no isle of peace?" Nonetheless, this kind of thing, plus two art books and a blasphemous play about Christ that was banned in Boston, was enough to make Sadakichi the king of Greenwich Village at the turn of the century...