Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...priests was Antonietta's husband Angelo. While the church has not formally accredited the miracolo, Pope Pius XII, in a message to Sicilians, has referred to the weeping Madonna: "So ardent are the people of Sicily in their devotion to Mary that who would marvel if she had chosen the illustrious city [of Syracuse] to give a sign of her grace...
...panoramas and crowd shots and in some fine scenes of young, nonviolent love. For the first time in memory, a New England town is filmed with neither the whales-and-ale quaintness of a picture postcard nor the brooding gloom of an H. P. Lovecraft horror story. Camden, Me. (chosen for the film setting because Gilmanton, N.H., where Novelist Metalious wrote the book, does not look the part) is prim, bleak or beautiful, but never stagy, and the townsfolk extras look and act like people. What is even rarer, so do most of the actors. Dialogue between a couple...
...individual creative projects fund, to provide financial assistance to members of the House who are engaged in creative projects in any field unconnected with course work." This fund will be administered by Lynn H. Loomis, professor of Mathematics and an associate of Leverett, and another faculty member not yet chosen...
Three Out of 303. A study made by the Scientific Monthly was equally unsettling. "Out of 303 names chosen for their eminence in science, only three were found to be Catholics." A 1952 study of American Men of Science showed that of 50 institutions turning out the most scientists, not one was Catholic. "I certainly take no delight in disturbing your minds with such humiliating evidence. We could, however, reflect upon many other facts to show that the 35 million Catholics of this country and our Catholic educational system are not producing anywhere near their proportion of leaders...
...born Jews, call themselves Hebrew Christians. Their group is the first of five organized Hebrew Christian churches in the U.S. (the others: Detroit. Philadelphia. Miami and Los Angeles). In 1934 David Bronstein founded the Chicago church-not formally affiliated with the others-out of a feeling that "I was chosen to bring the Jewish people to Christ...