Word: canonized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Died. Canon Felix Kir, 92, French Roman Catholic priest famed as a war hero and politician, and remembered as the namesake of a smooth potion concocted of white wine and currant or blackberry liqueur; of injuries suffered in a fall; in Dijon. Tough-minded and sharp-tongued, Kir (rhymes with hear) took over the mayoralty of Dijon (pop. 96,000) in 1940, when city officials fled the Germans, and led the local resistance throughout the war. Dijon's citizens voted him in as mayor in every election from 1945 to the present, and though he often proved a thorn...
Walker's own favorite seemed to be The Lincolnshire Posy by Percy Grainger (1940). This set of six folk songs testifies to the possibilities of marrving folk and classical music. The sweet trumpet tone of Rick Wilson and a delicious canon for oboe and soprano sax, expressively played by Tim Daniels and Hardin Matthews brought out the work's potential for colors and contrasts...
...book, The Church, which came out in Germany last year and will be published in the U.S. next month. In it, he even suggests setting up procedures for recalling ecclesiastics who prove incompetent-including the Pope. Though some Popes have been ousted in the distant past, present canon law contains no provision for deposing a Pope, even if he should become physically or mentally incapacitated. But, writes Kung, "the idea that the Pope is the servant of the church must be extended to include the possibility of the Pope's having to resign or being deposed...
...against apartheid, calling for an end to the government's racist policies, opening his cathedral doors to all races, criticizing the Dutch Reformed Church for its failure to denounce apartheid-all of which stirred an uproar that did not subside until he moved to London in 1963 as Canon of Westminster Abbey...
Among the contributors were Canon Charles Moeller and Monsignor Pietro Pavan, both of them officials of the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which sets the rules for censorship in the church...