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...said in his Inaugural Address, was "based not merely on the size of an arsenal but on the nobility of ideas." He declared war on "poverty, ignorance and injustice, for those are the enemies against which our forces can be honorably marshaled." In his Notre Dame speech of May 1977, Carter promised a "new" American foreign policy "based on constant decency in its values and on optimism in our historical vision." Even when he addressed the threat of Soviet expansionism, it was in terms that sounded more Quaker than Baptist: "We hope to persuade the Soviet Union that one country...
Roman Catholic priest who served as president of the University of Notre Dame during its postwar expansion (1946-52) and who, as a friend and curate to the Kennedy family, said a Requiem Mass for the assassinated President at the White House in 1963; in South Bend...
...were in fourth place. But competing on the beam, three American women went up and three fell off, one of them twice. That did it. The team finished a disappointing sixth. Lamented Coach Linda Metheny Mulvihill: "Everybody tightened up. It was a little scary for the girls." The grande dame of the championships turned out to be Nelli Kim, 22, who saved Soviet honor by winning the all-around title. Her gold-medal performance in the floor exercise was women's gymnastics at its best, a mature blend of dance and acrobatics. Kim's routines are elegant, sculpted...
...Dame Helen Gardner an updated humanism...
...unshakable belief that they hold the key to theatrical success in their genes. Hitting the right notes of arrogance and aristocratic off-handedness must be a trial. and not surprisingly only one of the Cavendishes at the Loeb finds the perfect balance. Shirley Wilber animates Fanny Cavendish, the grand dame of both stage and family, with accomplished ease: she seems as comfortable acting the role on stage as her comfortable acting the role on stage as her character does adding bits of drama to living room scenes. Wilber presides over both her household and this production with the assurance...