Word: vowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There were arguments pro & con over who helps the church more-the active priest or the contemplative. Said the Right Rev. M. James Fox, Abbot of the Trappist monastery of Our Lady of Gethsemani, in Kentucky,* whose monks take a vow never to speak, "Silence does not lock the soul in a prison . . . Silence merely gives you a heart filled with Jesus." Countered Dom Aelred Graham, a Benedictine who writes and teaches, "It is possible to do more good and lose nothing of contemplation by creative and more active work for society...
...disturbing rise of such figures, dramatized by last week's election, gave impetus to the Demo-Christian bill to outlaw all neo-Fascist movements, which has already been approved by the Senate and has a good chance of passing the Chamber. If it does, the neo-Fascists vow to return under some other name. Admitted a weary Demo-Christian leader: "It's very difficult to legislate a disease like Fascism out of existence...
...flight precipitates enough of a crisis for the father to vow a new family existence. There is a festive Sunday breakfast, much talk of a fine vacation. But for all the promises, the future doesn't look promising; the worm that seems to turn is still a leopard cursed with his spots. It is a chronicle of countless families whose struggle is less for bread than for something more than bread, and who are riot 1 ^o callous to love, but too burdened. If not successful, Sunday Breakfast is generally interesting and fitfully touching. One big difficulty is that...
...full. In a flat Ohio voice he said the kind of things most Midwestern Republicans hoped to hear. He said he was against universal military training, high taxes and expensive foreign aid; he was for farm-price supports, flood control and Douglas MacArthur. He made a big vow: "I promise you that if I am nominated and elected . . . I will reduce taxes by at least 15% within one year of the time I have been in office...
Nieman Fellow John Davies never could stomach working with women reporters. Even though he married one, he took a solemn oath that he would never have anything to do with them during working hours. The one time he broke this vow was on a day that shells were whistling over his head while his landing boat was pulling into the Inchon beachhead, and a sudden swerve sent a pretty young columnist flying into his lap. The somewhat embarrassed Davies recovered his equilibrium, however, and went on to become one of the top war correspondents, covering the Pacific campaign...