Word: advocatus
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...whom it was said: Sanctus Ivo erat Brito, Advocatus et non latro, Res miranda populo-"St. Ives was a Breton, lawyer and no brigand, a thing amazing to the people...
...would save the profit system and private ownership of property by adapting them to the technical conditions of the power age," says Tugwell's theory that the Depression was due to psychological rather than to natural causes "is the basis of the New Deal." Budget Director Lewis Douglas, advocatus diaboli in the Administration, "is not a New Dealer at all. . . . As a watchdog of Government expenditure there could be no better man; as a maker of policy there could be no worse. He has long since ceased to enjoy Roosevelt's confidence...
...narration of Roman Holiday, Sinclair's latest attack on capitalism, is put in the mouth of an advocatus diaboli: Luke Faber, conservative New Englander. manufacturer and gentleman-driver of racing cars. He is rich, socially correct. has a mistress and a fiancee, is popular with his fellow-townsmen and a power in the local American Legion. When the Reds make trouble in Rivertown factories. Faber helps organize a raid on their headquarters. Then comes the annual automobile race, "the Rivertown classic." Faber, the local favorite, is doing well, when he blows a front tire, hits the rail and crashes...
...advocatus diaboli (devil's advocate) appears to point out the weaknesses of the case, which must be proved in each of the three particulars, when a decree de tuto is issued. All is then ready for the ceremony of beatification-raising the candidate from the rank of Venerable to Blessed, a step to canonization. This last always takes place in the basilica of St. Peter's and is one of the most important ecclesiastical functions of the Pope...
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