Word: abbots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Anthem Unplayed. So far, the church's edging away from Franco is visible more in acts of omission than in commission-in the failure of the Bishop of Barcelona to attend the 20th anniversary of the city's liberation from the Republicans, in the refusal of the abbot to allow the playing of Spain's national anthem at a ceremonial dinner at the famous Basque monastery of Aránzazu (the abbot said the music was not "religious"), or in Pope John's own studied neglect to include a single reference to Franco in the papal...
Amid all the sake-gay festivity, the monks of Mount Sanjogatake were glum. Said 75-year-old Abbot Kaigyoku Okada: "Can a man meditate on the Buddha in the midst of passing geishas? That is why we sought mountain solitude. But now girls are to be allowed on our mountain, presumably with their boy friends. If one of my priests doing a cliff exercise happens to see a young couple, he may lose his balance and be killed." The abbot may have been thinking of a line popular with the mountain priests: "Woman is the root of disaster that even...
Though Director Lang heatedly dismisses all allegations of anti-Semitism in his play, significant changes have been made in the text. The abbot of a Benedictine monastery near Oberammergau scrutinized the text for offensive lines long before Davis' article appeared, rewrote ten passages. For example, in the old version, a group of Jews denounced Jesus before Pilate: "He will be the goal of our eternal hate. We will hate him until the end of time." Now they say: "O Lord, here is a man on trial; bless us and tell us whether he is right." In addition, the words...
...Amazing courage!" said the postmaster of Caldy later. "The sea was pounding with such force that the spray was flying across the island like a flock of sea gulls." And last week, when the storm was even higher. Father Abbot Samson Wicksteed, 36, a wartime radioman in an R.A.F. bomber, led husky Brother Joseph, ex-Barrister Brother Thomas and wiry Father Anthony (an R.A.F. squadron leader in the Battle of Britain and D.S.O. winner) once again into the gale. This time there was also a bottle of rum in the tea chest...