Word: handed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hand, a man who professes to be "a man of God" . . . declares that the Catholic Church seeks to destroy religious freedom. He insinuates that the Catholic Church, the faith of 350 million people, cannot be trusted, thereby creating suspicion, bigotry and hatred...
...told Massachusetts Institute of Technology students that the U.S. could not meet the threat of dictatorship "if we turn this country into a wishy-washy imitation of totalitarianism, where every man's hand is out for pabulum, and virile creativeness has given place to the patronizing favor of swollen bureaucracy...
Enthroned last week as archbishop of the Greek Orthodox Church of North & South America, big, bearded Archbishop Michael Constantinides, 57, promptly proceeded to toss a hand grenade into the ecumenical movement. At a recent meeting in Athens, said he, the Holy Synod of the Orthodox Church of Greece had decided that henceforth "no bishops of the Church of Greece could serve as official delegates to the World Council of Churches or hold any office . . ." The Church of Greece (membership: 5,961,000) is only one of 15 member churches in the Orthodox Communion, but, asserted Michael, it holds that...
Though 93 years old and 3,500 miles away, Playwright George Bernard Shaw kept a close, finicky eye on his latest Broadway revival. For nine months he badgered the producers with peppery cables, letters and postcards telling them just how to finance, cast and stage the play. He hand-picked Sir Cedric as Caesar (having coached him in the role in London in 1925), and gave Lilli Palmer his blessing as Cleopatra after Gertrude Lawrence brought her around for a visit last summer. He even passed on the production's Manhattan playhouse...
...first time in U.S. dance history, just about all of the big brains and muscles in modern dance-José Limón, Doris Humphrey, Charles Weidman, Hanya Holm-were flexing together in one theater to do it. And all their fervid followers seemed to be on hand to give them palm-pounding support...