Word: suggestion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...letter said its six signers had written to Trujillo to suggest a plan to end "the excesses, dry the tears, heal the wounds." In return, "we have promised special pledges in order to obtain from God the boon that none of the members of the [Trujillo] family shall ever experience the sufferings that today afflict the hearts of so many." Thunderstruck by open Catholic opposition, churchgoers left early Masses, talked nervously in church courtyards, returned to hear the letter read again at the next Mass. Collection plates overflowed with cash and donations of jewelry...
...plan can see action without the signatures of more House Republicans on the discharge petition. President Eisenhower, vice-President Nixon, and House Minority Leader Charles Halleck must decide whether or not they will exert leadership to bring about floor debate of these measures. Failure to do so will suggest that Northern Republicans and Southern Democrats have indeed made a deal, as many liberals have charged...
...Conductor Robert Craft sketched visual projections of musical styles from the simplicity of plain chant via the sound spirals of Atonalist Anton Webern to the newer serialists. Then Stravinsky added his own sketch of his own recent music (see cut). The knobs in the sketch stand for notes, suggest that Stravinsky wants all notes to be heard and considers them more important than do other serial composers, who care more about dynamics and instrumental colors; the leanness of the diagram suggests thinner, simpler orchestration. Says he: "Those younger composers who already claim to have gone beyond, to have exhausted serialism...
...Once he roused, and a Lady Eldon at his bedside asked if he would like her to read to him from "his" New Testament. He replied with a faint but distinct "No"; then after a long pause there came from the deathbed, just audibly, "Awfully jolly of you to suggest it, though." They were his last words...
Where Author Boyle does succeed is in her unerring demonstration of how difficult it is for conqueror and conquered to meet at any level below the let's-get-along surface. And she can suggest, rather than tiresomely explain, that history and national character are still tragically more decisive than any common love for the good, the true and the beautiful...