Word: vere
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Died. Vere Brabazon Ponsonby, 75, ninth Earl of Bessborough, onetime (1931-35) Governor General of Canada; in Rowlands Castle, England...
What Cargill's behavior ultimately inspires is a debate on how such behavior should be judged. The U.S. general in charge of the case admits Cargill's difficulties; but, somewhat like Captain Vere in Melville's Billy Budd, he sets law. however tyrannic, above lawbreaking, however understandable. In general, the debate stresses how agonizing are the alternatives for the transgressor, how dangerous are all absolutes for his judges. It asks at what point cracking up might be forgivable, and how far a moment of capitulation must cancel out a lifetime of loyalty. And in particular, Time Limit...
Prime Minister Robert Menzies, a Liberal, had adroitly called for new elections at a time when the political plumage of his opponent, Labor's tousleheaded Herbert Vere Evatt, was sadly ruffled by the Petrov spy case. Because two former Evatt associates were named by Petrov as his collaborators in espionage (but later cleared) Evatt, with birdlike innocence, had written to Molotov, asking for confirmation of his own contention that the MVD documents produced by Petrov were forged (TIME, Oct. 31). Molotov obligingly answered yes, and Evatt set out to use Molotov as a character witness. This reassured...
...mysterious bunyip, the legendary beastie that lives at the bottom of the placid Australian billabong, is less strange to Australians than Herbert Vere Evatt. A shaggy intellectual who leaped zestfully from the High Court bench into the labor political swamp in 1940, Evatt was Minister of External Affairs in three successive Labor governments, was once (1948) president of the U.N. General Assembly, and was long a man expected by many to become Prime Minister. But Herbert Evatt's public popularity and political power have been shaking apart since Australia's Petrov spy case broke early last year, just...
...detective stories are dwarfed by this one, in which the great dramatist himself supplies a wealth of clues . . . When the true author is known, the meaning of the plays is enhanced and their vitality surpasses anything yet devised by the mind or pen of man. The author, Edward de Vere [Earl of Oxford], was determined that his truth would sooner or later be known-" 'Gainst death and all oblivious enmity . . ." DOROTHY AND CHARLTON OGBURN New York City