Word: antonios
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...eyes turned to its agricultural past and stayed in close touch with the powerful church hierarchy. When he died last year, his common-sense successor, Paul Sauve, tried to modernize the party but died in turn before his reforms could take effect. The compromise successor as premier, Antonio Barrette, 61, had no program of his own, and let his party and the province drift...
...article published for last week's National Catholic Family Life convention in San Antonio, De Blanc expounded his view that women have a built-in need to procreate, that frustrating this natural consequence of sexual intercourse results in guilt, and guilt leads to psychological damage. Non-Catholic doctors and churchmen were quick to disagree. ¶ William H. Genne, a Congregationalist clergyman and De Blanc's Protestant opposite number as director of the Department of Family Life for the National Council of Churches: "Contraception can bring many beneficial emotional and spiritual effects when morally used. Protestant clergymen at home...
...treasures, those of the land owning Corsini family were the most spectacular. On display was a magnificent triptych by Puccio di Simone and,a crucified Christ by Francesco D'Antonio di Bartolomeo. Probably the finest single work in the show was the Corsini Ma donna and Child with Angels, painted in the 1480s by Filippino Lippi. As far as Prince Tommaso Corsini knows, the Madonna has always belonged to his family, but last week, for a while at least, it belonged to all Florence...
...INFANT WITH THE GLOBE (240 pp.) -Pedro Antonio de Alarcón, translated by Robert Graves-Yoseloff...
...Pedro Antonio de Alarcon, who lived from 1833 to 1891, was a member of a penniless aristocratic family and, in succession, a crusading young liberal editor and atheist, an unsuccessful playwright, a successful politician and. toward the end of his life, a conservative, well-to-do author and defender of the faith. The information is necessary because. Graves believes, Alarcon wrote The Infant with the Globe as a bantering, ironic commentary on his own youth...