Word: avila
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Edith returned to Breslau fired by a desire to discover the truth, beside which, she said, everything else was philosophical kindergarten. She began to investigate the "phenomenon" of the Catholic Church. Alone one night at a friend's farm, she picked up the autobiography of St. Teresa of Avila, read all night until she had finished it. "This," she said, "is the truth." She was baptized on New Year's Day, 1922, after she proved that she knew Catholic doctrine so well that no formal instruction was necessary...
...them), how to administer hypodermics and do major surgery, how to teach Christian doctrine-and how to be gay. When they return from the missions to the mother house on the Hudson, they are received with laughter and merry chatter. And on the feast day of St. Teresa of Avila, Oct. 15, they celebrate by adding to their far from ascetic meals a special ice-cream soda...
Some ride grandly through the dark door with banners flying and speeches set. Saints often talk as though they were going home. "Lord, now is the time to arise and go!" said St. Teresa of Avila. "The good time which I welcome, which is Thy will; the hour when I must leave my exile, and my soul shall enjoy the fulfillment of all her desire!" St. John the Evangelist was also eager to leave: "Thou hast invited me to Thy table, Lord; and behold I come, thanking Thee for having invited me, for Thou knowest that I have desired...
...success of The Mouse was instant and immense. The League of Nations endorsed him. Madame Tussaud put him in her famous wax museum. The Encyclopaedia Britannica devoted a separate article to the little fellow. He was the Nizam of Hyderabad's favorite movie star. Jan Christian Smuts, Avila Camacho, Mackenzie King declared in his favor. Franklin D. Roosevelt never missed a Mickey cartoon. Mussolini adored him; Hitler hated him. The Russians called him a proletarian symbol; however, the line changed in time, and Mickey is now a "warmonger...
...Francisco Cossio who had never had an exhibition in the U.S. but was acclaimed at home as one of Spain's foremost contemporaries. TIME'S story on Cossio (Sept. 21, 1953) was accompanied by a full-page color reproduction of his mural of St. Teresa of Avila and St. John of the Cross. An example of a new artist is Vienna-born Artist Henry Koerner (now a U.S. citizen), first spotted by TIME in 1947. Later, he was considered important enough for us to reproduce in color four pages of his work (TIME, March...