Word: cleric
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Elia Cardinal dalla Costa. 89, Archbishop of Florence and oldest member of the Sacred College, a tall, austere cleric who helped thousands of Italians to escape Fascist execution during World War II, became known throughout Italy as "the Cardinal of Charity"; of pulmonary complications; in Florence...
Thomas Jonathan ("Stonewall") Jackson (1824-63) : "Let us cross over the river and sit under the shade of the trees." Ronald Knox (1888-1957), English cleric: asked if he would like to hear a passage from his own New Testament, answered faintly, "No," lapsed into unconsciousness, and then just audibly: "Awfully jolly of you to suggest it, though...
...fact that the cleric and the psychiatrist use different techniques should not obscure the fact that they both have the same goals, Munter went on to explain. The talk, entitled "Psychiatry and Religion," was one of several that have been presented as part of the program to use the new freshman dormitory units to promote more informal intellectual activity in the freshman year...
...Count Basie on the ivories, Pete Fountain on the clarinet, Jack Brokensha on the vibes, and Cannonball Adderley, the meanest alto sax this side of Basin Street. The cats in the crowd yowled for all of them. But they also cheered for a bulky banjo player, clad in a cleric's cassock, who sat in the midst of a stripe-blazered combo and lined out Bill Bailey and Paddlin' Madeleine Home with minstrel zest and skill. This improbable jazz musician was Father John Joseph Dustin. 45, a Redemptorist priest, who has been strumming the banjo for 36 years...
...workers?" Sixteen of the 40 churches were set up on a new basis and called "Guild Churches"-closed on Sundays, open on weekdays, with emphasis on the lunch hour. A number of the Guild Churches branched out in novel aspects of church work-"sort of ecclesiastical laboratories," as one cleric called them...