Word: benedict
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Martians that land on the Radcliffe campus, and the interest still lies in the individual numbers rather than the resolution of the story line. But for the first time there is a thoughtful integration of dialogue and music. Were it not for the excellent lyrics composed by John Benedict, Robert Schwarz, and Tom Whedon, their clever lines might very well have stolen the show...
...hope my work will be for the Harvard boys in the end," said Feeney, explaining why students were on the mailing list of his group at St. Benedict's Center. "Students are tired of Kiwanis and Rotary Club religion. They want truth...
...papal appeal for clemency is grounded on long precedent. As special emissary of Benedict XV in World War I, the present Pope journeyed to Berlin to deliver a fruitless appeal to spare the life of Nurse Edith Cavell. And in 1944, Pius XII again asked the Germans for mercy-and was refused again-in the slaughter of 335 Italians in the Ardeatine caves near Rome. During the Spanish Civil War, Pius XI was successful in persuading General Franco to spare the lives of several Loyalist prisoners...
...school to teach his dogma. He "carried his message to the people" in talks on the Boston Common and in books. When he ignored Archbishop Cushing's order to be silent in 1949, he was deprived of his priestly functions and expelled from the Jesuit Society, and St. Benedict's was placed under interdict...
Using St. Benedict's as a hub, he attempted to train young men and women, largely ex-Harvard and Radcliffe students, to "carry the truth all over the country." Although his black-garbed followers once numbered 75, in the last year almost 50 have left him in confessed doubt and confusion...