Word: steadfastness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...effectively as social and political commentary. Although he embraces the simplicity, innocence and parochialism of the people he films, he casts a wiser eye on the cold was suppression of communism and the rigid posturing of the Church. Sometimes the newsreels do blend into the fiction easily--Maguire's steadfast moralism shows better against the undeniable portrait of the fifties on real film. Assigned to film a flood, Maguire and his young cameraman grope their way into the disaster area at night. A newsreel by the competition, Newsco, introduces us to the scene. In a fairly believable sequence, Maguire...
...personal participation in the peace process had also risked "the prestige of the U.S.," the President stressed that "the efforts would have been worth making regardless of the outcome. In war, we offer our very lives as a matter of routine. We must be no less daring, no less steadfast, in the pursuit of peace...
...ironically, it is the onlooker who reaps the most benefits. For it is that unchanging and steadfast aspect of the ritual itself, the fact that spring training does and always will occur in the same way, a laid-back, almost pensive introduction to the epic of regular season that follows, that annually hoists the pastime onto its pedestal. As columnist Art Spander once philosophized, "It remains that time when athlete and spectator both dream, when the dreariness and discomfort of winter at last are slipping away, when baseball once more is the game we knew as kids...
...from his visit to the Vatican for the last papal conclave. Named his nation's first bishop in 1950, Trin Nhu Khue elected to remain in his native Hanoi after North Viet Nam gained its independence in 1954. In favor of a modest rapprochement with the Communists but steadfast in his refusal to vote in their elections, he was imprisoned in 1959 for a year and barred thereafter from traveling outside his country. That ban was dramatically broken in 1976 when he was allowed to go to the Vatican to receive his red hat from Pope Paul...
...fingers to deal with its almost appropriately scaled repasts. But for those who want to make some attempt to recreast a Plantegenet's Christmas dinner, the past few years have brought more and more cookbooks featuring the recipes, and the dedication to excess, of our more steadfast ancestors. This year's big seller was The Medieval Cookbook by Madelaine Cosman...