Word: successor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Howe considered Judge Harold A. Medina of New York, who presided at the lengthy Communist trials two years ago and who has been mentioned as a successor to Jackson, "a dreadful choice." Zechariah Chafee, Jr., University Professor, agreed. "I would certainly be disappointed if Medina was selected...
...Duke's successor: the Very Reverend Thomas Chappell, 48, popular Dean of the Cathedral Church of St. Stephen in Harrisburg, Pa. A Hotchkiss boy himself (class of '24), Dean Chappell graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Yale, later went on to the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge, Mass. His plans for Hotchkiss are, in a sense, ambitious. They are nothing less than to give the sort of spiritual and intellectual education long provided under The Duke-a training in 'the habitual contemplation of greatness" for the production of men "sensitive to the good, competent, imaginative, ready...
...ministers and politicians who oppose him, none can stand for long against Jawaharlal Nehru. The chosen political instrument of Mahatma Gandhi and the great man's successor, he is still the village spellbinder, the favorite of India's masses. The Congress Party, riddled with corruption and disliked by Indians at large, has no one else of Nehru's stature (Indians sometimes refer to Congress politicos as "pygmies in high chairs") and cannot hope to cling to power without him. If the threat to resign does not in itself quiet the opposition, Nehru is safe in gambling that...
...among teenagers. As a Youth-for-Christer, Billy traveled all over the U.S. and the world, preaching in a different town every day. In 1946, the aging president of a small college (Northwestern Schools in Minneapolis) announced he thought it was God's will that Graham be his successor. Graham, who thought the job would sidetrack him, replied tartly: "If the Lord has called me to do this, why doesn't He tell us both, instead of just...
...optimistic that he sees the future as a figure fairly bursting with progress. But Toynbee believes that the 20th century's thin, frightened young man who sees only a question mark in the future ("Is he perhaps wondering whether he can even look forward to having any successor of any kind?") may be equally wrong. Doom is no more automatic than progress...