Word: communion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communion of Hsiao. To Chen Li-fu, the way to virtue (and orderly society) is expressed in the word hsiao. To understand the Confucian notion of hsiao is to understand a great deal about Chen Li-fu and his China. Hsiao means, roughly, filial piety. But it stands for more than that. It means that the individual is nothing, the family everything. Hsiao holds Chinese society together; but it is also used as an excuse for graft and nepotism. Hsiao imposes on a man responsibilities the West does not know; but it also tends to modify the sense of personal...
Praised from all sides by his banqueting flock: roly-poly old (seventyish) Father Divine, who celebrated his year-old marriage to blonde Edna Rose Ritchings, 22, with a medium-staggering dinner in Pine Brook, NJ. Over the happy couple gleamed a purple neon sign: "God's Holy Communion Table of Palace Mission." The bride wore a white gown and gold slippers. Fifty girls in uniforms marked with Vs (for Virtue, Victory and Virginity) choired the host's praises. The guests sat down in early afternoon to a menu featuring 60 kinds of meat, 54 vegetables, 23 salads, eleven...
...Orleans, the Rev. James W. Courtney of the Immaculate Conception church was stabbed and critically injured by a young ex-marine to whom he was administering Holy Communion...
Atlanta felt no more than minor inconvenience, and teachers actually found new hope for teen-age boys and girls who were driven by the shutdown from endless nightly phone communion to homework. In Kansas City, as in most struck cities, telegraph business zoomed a staggering 50 to 80%. In flooded Michigan, hurried conferences between company and union officials quickly restored emergency service to stricken areas. Radio "hams" took over part of the disaster-message burden in the devastated wake of the Texas-Oklahoma tornado (see Disaster). Denver's harassed company officials indignantly refused to deliver "Come home to lunch...
...analogue to England's Archbishop of Canterbury, and sixth-ranking prelate of the Anglican Communion (after the Archbishops of Canterbury, York, Armagh and Wales, the Primus of Scotland...