Word: testaments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Funeral services will take place Sunday at 3 p.m. in Memorial Church. The Rev. Henry E. Horn of University Southern Church will read the service. Krister Stendahl, John H. Morison Professor of New Testament Studies, and John H. Finley, Jr. '25, Eliot Professor of Greek Literature, will speak...
...combined the resourcefulness of a diplomat with the vision of a poet. His vision, the philosophy of international cooperation which inspired his many expeditions of mediation and reconciliation, including his fatal mission to the Congo, found its fullest expression in the document which turned out to be his final testament to the world. In the report which he was to have submitted to the General Assembly upon his return from Africa, Mr. Hammarskjold contrasted two concepts of the authority and function of the United Nations. Some members, he said, regard the U.N. as "a static conference machinery for resolving conflicts...
From a world-worn valise stashed with his Manhattan publisher, Charles Scribner's Sons, came the last will and testament of Novelist Ernest Hemingway. Handwritten by Hemingway at his Cuban ranch six years ago, the onionskin document left his entire unevaluated estate (including the manuscripts of A Farewell to Arms and For Whom the Bell Tolls which will probably wind up at Harvard) to his fourth wife. "I repose complete confidence in my beloved wife Mary," it continued, "to provide for [my three children by previous marriages] according to written instructions I have given her." Literary style...
Sense of Whimsy. Hardship never crushed Reder's sense of whimsy. His people may be half bird; he invents preposterous musical instruments, designs costumes and headdresses that are pure fancy. His ideas come from almost anywhere-from the Old Testament, from Rabelais, from the memory of a statue of Napoleon (see color) or of a dwarf back in Czernowitz with a large head. "All I know is that when the time comes, the idea is there. It comes from my stomach, from my blood. And I never ask my blood...
...never been a violent man. My whole life has been antiviolence." As for the eight years of detention, partly spent at remote Lodwar, where the hot winds have blown the land into a veritable moonscape, Kenyatta insists: "I bear no grudge against anybody. I would borrow from the New Testament where Jesus said: 'Father, forgive them; for they do not know what they are doing...