Word: arnolds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...since high school she had been subject to convulsive seizures, attacks that a neurologist diagnosed as epilepsy. Doctors had little success in treating her. Her devout parents, in desperation, began consulting priests. Finally, with permission from Bishop Josef Stangl of Wūrzburg, they brought in two exorcists-Father Arnold Renz, a former missionary in China, and Father Ernst Alt, a pastor in a nearby community. For ten months, beginning last September and continuing until shortly before her death, the two priests conducted an intermittent series of exorcisms to rid Anneliese of six demons they believed possessed her. The efforts...
...modern historical theorists, who point like hour hands to the parallel decline of the modern West. Oswald Spengler believed that the historical cycle-both Roman and industrial-ends in megalopolis, where man coheres "unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter of fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful ..." Arnold Toynbee, in his monumental A Study of History, charted Rome and America through similar cycles of triumph, disintegration and collapse; like the empire of Augustus and Tiberius, imperial America could end in "a schism in the soul...
U.M.W. President Arnold Miller, already under constant attack by a rival faction in his union (TIME, May 17), is sure to suffer too. He voiced sympathy for the strikes last week. But since the wildcats were unauthorized by the union, Miller also urged the miners to "return to work on the next available shift." None of the locals paid heed. That caused a Miller aide to mourn: "Coal companies and dissident miners are going to say this shows once again that Arnold can't keep the membership in line." Both union and company officials hope the strikes will soon...
...Died. Arnold Gingrich, 72, longtime editor and publisher of Esquire magazine; of cancer; in Ridgewood, N.J. A former advertising copywriter, Gingrich became Esquire's founding editor in 1933 and developed the success formula for the nation's first modern "man's magazine": slightly risqué cartoons, articles about sports and politics and polished short stories by such topflight authors as Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Thomas Wolfe. Gingrich resigned in 1945. Returning to a floundering magazine in 1952 as its publisher, he hired some freewheeling young editors and gave the magazine its characteristic bold, jaunty tone...
...biggest obstacles was winning the trust of those he prepresented--always suspicious and with no reason to trust a Jew from the big city. He knew he had won their trust when he visited the home of one of his clients, who was calling her hogs "Arnold" and "Porter." A neighbor scolded her, saying Arnold & Porter were only trying to help them, and she should show more respect. The answer came, "I know that, they are out there rootin' for us, aren't they...