Word: benedict
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Margaret Mead's teacher and friend, Ruth Benedict, went to lunch with Margaret's father. Later Anthropologist Benedict wrote to her student: "My congratulations, Margaret. I don't see how you ever grew...
...degrade the mind." Christianity finally bestowed a measure of dignity on work. Slaves and freemen are all one in Christ Jesus, said St. Paul, adding: "If any one will not work, let him not eat." For the medieval monks, work was a glorification of God; the followers of St. Benedict, the father of Western monasticism, set the tone in their rule: "Laborare est orare"-to work is to pray. During the Reformation, John Calvin asserted that hard-earned material success was a sign of God's predestining grace, thus solidifying the religious significance of work. Around Calvin...
...survive, Wills believes, the church must be "resurrected from the feet up." New forms of life have come from outside the hierarchy: "from Athanasius at local councils, Benedict in the monasteries, Francis of Assisi in the roads." Reformers of the past-from Savonarola to John Henry Newman-suffered or were silenced in their time but eventually prevailed. "It has always been the task of the prophetic church to redeem the kingly church," Wills concludes. "As Pope Innocent needed St. Francis, Paul VI needs Dan Berrigan...
...real estate executive who became a Braves owner in 1943, Perini gave a sense of insecurity to sports fans everywhere when he led his money-losing team from their home of 77 years to pastures he hoped would be more profitable. (They were not.) Boston papers dubbed him the "Benedict Arnold of Baseball," but his strategy was subsequently emulated by financially pressed teams in both leagues...
...Irving got the Phelan manuscript. Noah Dietrich began working on a book about Hughes in Los Angeles during 1969. Jim Phelan, his collaborator, is a widely experienced newspaperman and investigative reporter who has written five magazine articles on Hughes. Says Dietrich: "Phelan would come up to my house in Benedict Canyon and I would dictate to his tape recorder. One hundred hours of tapes. Then he digested this and wrote down a lot of questions, and I dictated a whole batch of memos to my secretary...