Word: wilhelms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...egocentric reasoning, he applied his maxims in a government shift that dumfounded his countrymen, angered the Gaullist party and raised doubts in France about the wisdom of his future policy. In what was perhaps the most ungracious ouster of a head of government since Germany's Wilhelm II fired Bismarck in 1890, De Gaulle dropped his old friend and loyal helper, Georges Pompidou, as Premier. As his replacement, De Gaulle tapped his longtime Foreign Minister, Maurice Couve de Murville, a suave aristocrat who has no personal political ambitions...
Other speakers expressed their concern that rebel elements within the church are corroding faith, and contended that even the U.S. hierarchy is not exempt from the liberal disease. Keynote Speaker Frederick Wilhelm-sen, professor of philosophy and politics at the University of Dallas, declared that "the bishops of this nation labor mightily like elephants and then bring forth as solutions the mice of secular liberalism." The problem with liberalism, explained L. Brent Bozell, editor of the Catholic monthly Triumph (and brother-in-law of William Buckley), is its view of a world in which man is self-sufficient...
Undergraduates are for the most part only passive observors of this process. For them the museum is simply a visual library, but Coolidge has made every effort to make it a good one. Years back, Wilhelm Koehler resolutely ignored the Fogg's collection and taught his course on Romanesque sculpture from battered photographs. But last semester Linda Seidel used the originals to teach a course on restorations and forgeries in Romanesque sculpture. Coolidge says, "You cannot discuss the nature of genuine surface or the problems of recutting by studying beaten-up photographs...
...Even battle-ravaged South Viet Nam will have gained new airports and harbors, built for waging war but equally suitable for handling peacetime traffic. In Thailand, U.S.-built military roads can be used-indeed already are being used -to get native farm products to market. Similarly, says John K. Wilhelm, an American AID official in Saigon, the heavy ocean-cargo volume generated by the war "might simply be transferred to civilian shipping" once hostilities cease...
...That Ibis is no chicken," cracked La Farge, carrying the winged creature back to his perch on the Lampoon's Kaiser Wilhelm helmet cupola...