Word: benedict
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mountain cave near Subiaco, Italy, a tall, white-haired Englishman with gentle eyes stood in silent prayer. The place was Sacro Speco, where, tradition says, St. Benedict spent years as an anchorite. The Englishman was Historian Arnold Joseph Toynbee, and (aloofly in the third person) he now describes what he felt there three years ago: "Here was the primal germ of Western Christendom; and, as the pilgrim read . . . the names of all the lands, stretching away to the ends of the Earth, that had been evangelized by a spiritual impetus issuing from this hallowed spot, he prayed that the spirit...
After the Bible. Some of Butler's saints have been eliminated by modern scholarship, shortage of facts or plain obscurity (there is no all-inclusive calendar of Catholic saints). Notable among the additions is St. John Cassian. 5th century patriarch of monasticism, whose work was rated by St. Benedict as, after the Bible, the most suitable reading for Benedictine monks. Butler banned him. presumably for his leanings toward semi-Pelagianism (heretical insistence on man's perfectibility without God's help), but Attwater prefers to call him "anti-Augustinian." Other newcomers are those canonized since Butler...
...ways that Attwater describes as "menial, repulsive, exhausting and insanitary." Her imitation of the lives of the poor was so squalidly real that at times her fellow nuns shrank from contact with her. She ate almost nothing, slept hardly at all and died in 1270 at 28. St. Benedict Labre was another dirty saint who spent most of his life tramping from shrine to shrine throughout 18th century Europe, sleeping in sheds or fields, eating meagerly of handouts and garbage, talking to virtually no one and smelling to high heaven. But when he died of a chill in Rome...
...Rational? To get the first students in the proper mood, Bond sent each six books to read-Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Ruth Benedict's Patterns of Culture, Robert Heilbroner's The Worldly Philosophers, Alfred North Whitehead's Science and the Modern World, The New Pocket Anthology of American Verse, and Short Story Masterpieces, edited by Robert Penn Warren and Albert Erskine...
...Zirconium," said National Research Corp.'s Atomic Expert Manson Benedict, "will become as important to atomics as copper is to the electrical industry." What Scientist Benedict was talking about last week was a huge new program by the Atomic Energy Commission to use almost pure zirconium as a construction material for nuclear reactors. To three companies-National Research, Carborundum Co. and National Distillers Corp. -AEC handed out contracts to buy $70 million of the metal over the next five years. From a trickle, zirconium production will soar to 2,200,000 Ibs. annually. Price: around $6.50 a lb., less...