Word: intentness
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...fulfill. The war killed both, and drove Miss Ellen from the family plantation to live with relatives in Raleigh; even then the protective cocoon of her gentility was scarcely damaged. In June 1865 she returns home with her widowed daughter-in-law, "Miss Lucy," and her grandson Garrett, intent on recapturing the past; it is as if the March through Georgia had been no more than some annoyingly loud parade...
...know what people will think or do next." Ritual is not to be confused with mere ceremonial. "The rhetoric of great human speech is a ritual," says Lynch, "but I have heard it too often torn to the tatters of 'meaningful fact' by fine actors who were intent on showing that they could enter into each line and syllable and movement of the body, thus giving personality and modernity to every fact. The lines were no longer allowed to float out in the air as ritual victories...
...Your April 18 article on "The Catholic Issue" was most discouraging. You seem to fan the age-old myths of separation of church and state to the point where the problem is distorted beyond its original intent. If Kennedy is to be barred because he is a Roman Catholic, I suggest we throw out all Roman Catholics from those governmental agencies where Roman influence conflicts with Protestant ideas (i.e., Health, Education and Welfare...
...Intent on making lively the arrival of France's Premier Michel Debré in Algeria, six men sat around a table in an Algerian village tinkering with the timing device of a bomb. The bomb exploded and the six were blown to bits...
...Tunisia 10,000 Algerian fellaghas have been training for months in full view of the French army across the border. Come spring, the French fear, the fellaghas will be moving across the border with the express intent of disrupting the elections. Last week the F.L.N. announced that it would begin accepting "foreign volunteers." The Red Chinese have a standing offer to supply the Algerian rebels with "technicians" and money, but in actuality, it is unlikely that the F.L.N. expects to accept more than token contributions. More likely, the rebels, who have apparently given up hope of extracting concessions from...