Word: church
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...First Communist. Father Molnar explained his peculiar faith to his visitors, just as his congregation was leaving his hilltop church, the women placid in bright calico skirts, the men proud in black Sunday suits and polished black boots. Father Molnar has built up an unreal paradoxical world in which history's most sharply opposite faiths are fantastically synthesized. He declared himself a strong believer in Marxism, but he maintained that spiritual guidance remained the clergy's rightful monopoly. On his bookshelf, he keeps church literature next to Stalin's Problems of Leninism. Marx's Kapital...
...dare preach against Mindszenty. Privately, however, he referred to the cardinal as an anti-democrat. To Father Molnar it seemed that the cardinal simply had not been reasonable. "He knew he would be arrested sooner or later. He could have escaped. But he wanted a showdown between Church and State. Now there will hardly be a way out of this mess...
From the time she was eight, and singing small solo parts in a little church in a suburb of Athens, she had heard nice things about her voice. The directors of the Athens Conservatory heard her sing when she was 15, gave her six years' free training. In 1936 Bruno Walter gave her work at the Vienna State Opera, and she has been on the Vienna roster ever since. Last October she returned to Athens, sang Carmen eight times in two weeks...
Truman's speech (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) was the slow movement in the spectacle. When he had finished, the carnival spirit returned in the roaring, foot-stamping applause from the bleachers, in the chimes from the Epiphany Church, in the ruffles and flourishes of the Marine Band. Just before the Inaugural Parade, the image flickered hysterically and there was a spell of "operating difficulties...
...marry out of your Church, or you'll regret it all your life." So all Roman Catholic priests and many Protestant ministers warn their flocks. But most young people in love believe that love will conquer everything-including church dogma, ritual and customs...