Word: assisi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Milwaukee, nearly 100,000 people recently walked out of snow and subfreezing temperatures straight into a lush garden where a stone Saint Francis of Assisi stood by a gurgling waterfall and fields of flowering forsythia and geraniums. In Kansas City, Mo., the theme was "A Circus of Flowers," with a candy-striped circus tent summoning up a gay, summer air. For the opening of Cleveland's 23rd show, neither blizzards nor bone-chilling winds sweeping off of ice-covered Lake Erie could deter 18,000 hardy hobbyists. And in Detroit, while huge blocks of ice floated down the river...
...write: "No man of dignity can shrink from war if he is to preserve his freedom." Quite a few men have done just that: Jesus, Buddha, Francis of Assisi, William Penn, Gandhi and Schweitzer, to name the more illustrious...
Shortest in Time. As is their custom, Vatican aides managed to find an appropriate symbolism in the date chosen for Paul's trip: it is the feast day of Francis of Assisi, patron saint of San Francisco where the U.N. was born. Although it will be the longest of Paul's flights in miles-4,273 each way, compared with 3,843 for his pilgrimage to India-the New York trip will be the shortest in time, largely because the Vatican Council will be in the midst of its fourth session. The Pope will arrive at Kennedy Airport...
...Francis of Assisi Church Brooklyn...
...first person, describing his life from childhood to manhood, while the images on the screen shift constantly from the familiar to the distant, from face to face, from suburb to desert, from young Africans flirting in canoes to young Italians at a wedding feast in the hills of Assisi. The film is funny, informative, poetic, moving, ingenious, instructive, entertaining and beautifully photographed...