Word: christianly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world's leaders able to turn to positive ends the explosive desire for change that stalked the earth in 1958. One who did was himself among the world's growing group of soldier-trained leaders. By putting his personal mark on great events and proving once again the fundamental Christian proposition that history is shaped by individuals, not by blind fate or inexorable Marxist laws, France's Charles Andre Joseph Marie de Gaulle, 68, made himself the Man of the Year...
...losers in the spreading war are Cuba's people. In Oriente the civil war moved the Roman Catholic Church to issue its own sad communique last week. Said Santiago Archbishop Enrique Pérez Serantes: "We have entered a new and horrible phase-hunger produced by war. Christian hearts cannot be unmoved by the plight of nearly all our towns and villages, filling with victims of hunger and caught in the path of death...
Milk & Jam. "I didn't become a good Christian overnight," Pat advises. "In fact, I got my last spanking when I was 17." It was administered by strong-willed Mama Boone with her ever-ready sewing-machine belt, "both of us leaning over the bathtub." For this walloping and many before, Pat is grateful: "We all thought Mama the greatest, and I tell her now that she can spank me any time she likes...
From the Texas Heritage Foundation went the touching plea to the President of the U.S.: Would he, in the name of Christian charity, posthumously pardon that gifted storyteller O. Henry,* convicted in 1898 of embezzling $854.08 from an Austin bank? At the same time the wire went to President Eisenhower from Major General (ret.) Paul Wakefield, the foundation's president, word of his appeal was scattered to newspapers, radio and television stations the country over...
...more than a theological teaser or a jigsaw puzzle about just which Biblical figure is lurking under what sombrero. Coccioli has achieved a mosaic of miniatures in which the state of Morelos is the Kingdom of Judaea, and in which the pre-Columbian pantheon is transfigured to decorate a Christian altarpiece. Coccioli has leaped over the two stumbling blocks-banality and blasphemy-that beset the path of those who would compete with the Evangelists. He speaks through the mouth of one of his characters, a scholar who has studied the case of Manuel: "The Lord who knows the bottom...