Word: utmost
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hate the violence if it comes: we may stand by disapprovingly while others charge the troops and attack the Orwellian Justice Department: we may wish the Weathermen spent more time listening to Dylan. We may even formally dissociate ourselves from the violence; we may do that with the utmost sincerity...
...Vatican II declared in a 1965 decree that "communities that are entirely dedicated to contemplation are a glory of the church and a wellspring of heavenly graces." While some adaptation to modern life might be in order, they affirmed, the contemplative life itself "should be preserved with the utmost care." A new document governing the lives of cloistered nuns-67,380 throughout the world-has now made it clear that the Vatican intends to do just that...
...unresolved crisis in which succeeding musicians have become crippled with a morbid obsession of emancipation from the past, resulting in the aberrations of serialism and the avant-garde. While it is undeniable that these years were apocalyptic. Mahler's compositions were sui generis, employing a musical language of the utmost originality and resilience. He was Schoenberg's closest friend and most powerful advocate, but unlike so many lesser composers, took refuge in neither self-indulgent derivativeness nor in the most modern romance of the despairing, artist. Everyone stresses Mahler's bitterness, his nervous, lachrymose nature...
...stern, quarrelsome but good-looking man," concealed his picture under the bed. The most elaborately composed portrait, that of Monsignor Hugh Henry, shows a genuine figure of strength and integrity, yet strangely mocked by a grinning image of Leo XIII in the background. Conversely, an expression of utmost anguish mitigates the authority suggested by the splendrous vestments of Monsignor James Loughlin...
Captain John Cramer, cornerback Rick Frisbie and linebacker Gary Farnetti are the only starters returning on defense, but Yovicsin has four other proven lettermen--Seniors Rick Berne Ed Sadler, Dale Neal, and Neil Hurley--that he can use with the utmost confidence. Berne and Sadler, who between them saw 221 minutes of action as reserves last season, can ably handle the two defensive tackle spots, getting back-up strength from junior larry Kram, a JV performer last year...