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...secretary, asking me to translate a sentence into Latin for him. When she revealed his desire to emulate Horace and rear a lasting monument by putting on his door "If you don't swing, don't ring" in deathless Latin chased in metal, I explained in vain the impossibility of translating slang. So I came up with Si non oscillas noli tintinnare and forgot about...
...were an actor in a play near the end of a long run-withdrawn, saying the words without compassion. The contrast between this remoteness and the fervor on the faces of the communicants as they receive the Host and the Cup states Bergman's theme: a vain search for faith down ways that are closed. Besought, after the service, to counsel a fisherman (Max von Sydow) sick with world-sadness because "the Chinese now have an atom bomb," the pastor starts a confident trust-in-God homily that turns by stages into a pathetic malediction of the "echo...
...actually increased their hard-core strength (to an estimated 25,000) by recruiting more peasants. And though the Reds are losing many weapons, those that they are capturing are modern mortars and machine guns, while those that they lose to government forces are generally crude devices and obsolete rifles. Vain Pleas. As the government
...family as Brother Ngo Dinh Nhu, and the beauteous Madame Nhu, for advice and support in the struggle against the Communists. Diem is mistrustful of many of his best soldiers and fears also that continued heavy casualties will undermine what public support he enjoys. U.S. officers have pleaded in vain with Diem to allow more small-unit sallies and night operations to challenge the Viet Cong's after-dark supremacy. In their impatience with Diem, some exasperated U.S. officials wish that he could be replaced by a more flexible man. But they admit that there is no other leader...
...Kennedys in Bloom. Throughout the evening, as four additional masters of ceremonies (LIFE Publisher C. D. Jackson, Helen Hayes, Henry Cabot Lodge, Bob Hope) took turns introducing cover guests, plea followed plea to hold back time-consuming applause until the end of each turn. It was all in vain. The crowd greeted each name with a round of approval, especially heavy for such favorites as Douglas MacArthur, Cuban Exile Leader José Miró Cardona, Jonas Salk, Green Bay Packer Coach Vince Lombardi, General Omar Bradley, Judge Harold Medina and Casey Stengel. By the time Hope took over, midnight...