Word: broads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...broad-shouldered Father Hartnett scribbled notes diligently while Blanshard talked and, when he got his turn, quickly abandoned his prepared speech to speak off the cuff. The trouble with Blanshard, he said, "is his lack of firsthand knowledge of Catholicism. Reviewers have praised his book for its documentation. Why does he have to document it so much? . . . Because the man does not know the Catholic Church like those of us who are on the inside. It's very much like the foreigner who had never visited the United States, but wrote a book about it from our Constitution...
Dave Carter and Bill Geick will compete in the broad jump, facing defending champions Win Scott and Bill Rapp of Army. Geick and Dick Barwise are in the high jump, and Dave Best will carry Crimson hopes against a mediocre field in the pole vault...
Service & Sewers. Jim Duff had explained what kind of party he wanted in a telegram to the G.O.P. committee drafting the new Republican "platform"(TiME, Feb. 20). It was a party that is "broad and not exclusive, a party of service and not of privilege, a party that is progressive and not backsliding, a party that is constructive and not petty." That was not Joe Grundy's party...
...spired, said Marini, by the equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius in Rome's Pi azza del Campidoglio. But there was noth ing conventionally heroic about Marini's riders ; they were scared, not proud. They looked, indeed, very much like lonely, out size babies mounted bareback on broad, unbridled Mongolian ponies - going no where. Marini had carved them with mingled delicacy and deliberate awkward ness, sacrificing handsomeness to pathos...
...broad-beamed Lynn White Jr. is a cherubic-looking medievalist who is something of an expert on the 13th Century origins of the mechanical clock. Ever since 1943, when he became president of lively little (enrollment: 800) Mills College (for women) in Oakland, Calif., he has also been something of a maverick in the world of higher education. So far as women are concerned, says he, higher education is a flop. Last week, in a new book called Educating Our Daughters (Harper; $2.50), he told...