Word: swiss
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...watchful eye on liberal tendencies in the U.S. church since he came to Washington in 1959. In 1961 he delivered a public warning against the dangerous methods being used by certain Catholic scriptural scholars. Two years ago, he persuaded a few U.S. bishops to cancel speaking engagements by Swiss Theologian Hans Kung. More recently, he has advised U.S. church authorities to hush some outspoken lay Catholic journalists, notably Freelance Writer Michael Novak (A New Generation, The Open Church), a doctoral student at Harvard. The American hierarchy does not much relish Vagnozzi's intervention. "A Papal Nuncio is one step...
...Alfred Schaefer, 60, chief of the Union Bank of Switzerland, and by common consent that nation's foremost commercial banker, was protesting the notoriety thrust upon Swiss banks by the recent troubles of Britain's pound. Long the world's favorite haven for nervous money, Swiss banks have amassed so much of it (fully one-fifth of their $16.6 billion in deposits comes from foreigners) that when their international clientele decided to lighten its sterling holdings, the banks became heavily though unhappily involved in the run on the pound. The Swiss themselves contributed $80 million...
...Criticize a Swiss and you have an enemy. We are great at criticizing others, but never or seldom criticize ourselves. We are too perfect in everything, like our chocolates and cheeses are. And naturally, we look up to our mountains and then down our short noses over the rest of the world. Right...
Bargain Investments. Many of today's foreign buyers are Europeans (mostly Germans, followed by the Dutch, Belgians and Swiss) impelled partly by a desire to escape dismal winters but still more by the smell of a bargain investment. Florida lots often cost about one-fifth the price of a comparable homesite on the Continent. Typical terms: as little as $1,295 for a 10,000-sq.-ft. plot with water and sewerage connections, and $25 down and eight years to pay at 5% interest. Moreover, if they choose to build, Europeans get more house for their money...
...moments of that journey: 'This is where I think I am and this is what this place looks like today.' " Shaw may think he is on Long Island, but this seems doubtful; he has spent the past several years living a comfortable expatriate life in Klosters, a Swiss ski resort. Of course Shaw may have been talking about the geography of the soul, but there is nothing of the inner eye's witness in his novel about Federov. His writing once had this quality; it no longer does, and the loss is severe...