Word: dame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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M.I.T. was the second-highest eastern college. Yale managed to draw 19, while Chicago took 15 of them. Other high-ranking schools were Cornell with 13 and Notre Dame with...
JOSEPH M. SHANNON JR. Notre Dame...
Paris has swallowed up the Cathedral of Notre Dame and St. Paul's is only one landmark of London, but the life of Vienna still centers around the 800-year-old Cathedral of St. Stephen. The Viennese call it, familiarly, Stefanskirche-Stephen's Church. Since the war, when its roof was wrecked in the siege of Vienna, they have worked as hard to repair Stefanskirche as their 12th century forefathers did to build it. In six years workmen, including free labor volunteers, contributed 1,500,000 hours to its repair. New tiles to cover the slate roof were...
...Eternal City: an escaped Leavenworth convict (Paul Douglas) is regenerated by an American priest (Van Johnson) during the 1950 Holy Year in Rome. The picture has several slapsticky cops & robbers chases, some good views of famed Roman churches and some sticky dialogue. Sample: Douglas-"Justice is a blind dame weighing a fish." Johnson-"It's a soul she's weighing." Douglas-"Sole, trout, haddock, what's the difference...
...goes well, Father Cavanaugh hopes that the great books will become a part of the whole curriculum, and if not, at least the idea behind them. After more than a quarter-century at Notre Dame as student and teacher, his own definition of a truly educated man is the same as it was on the day he first entered the priesthood -"One who knows what God wants him to do and has the discipline...