Word: devoutely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This week at services in Bonn and West Berlin, Julius Cardinal Döpfner of Munich and other German Christian leaders mark the 20th anniversary of the July 1944 plot against Hitler, which involved so many devout Christians that it has become the symbol of the Ehrenretter, the lay and clerical martyrs who tried to save the honor of Christianity in those dark years. Two of the martyrs appear on a new series of stamps issued by the Federal Republic, but there were many more-at least 112 Catholic priests and 22 Protestant ministers -who died in German prison camps...
...letters, says Russell, who plans to detail them in an American Heritage magazine article, portray Harding as a devout lover and Mrs. Phillips as something of a moneygrubber. Many of the missives were written on Senate station ery, some on postcards bearing Harding's photograph. Some of them ran to 35 or 40 pages. Some of the letters he signed "Warren," some with his full name, and others with a code name, "Constant...
VERDI: FOUR SACRED PIECES (Angel). Just before he wrote Falstaff at 79, Verdi composed the Ave Maria and Laudi alia Vergine Maria; he finished the Te Deum and Stabat Mater at 83. Together they make a magnificent and devout peroration to the lifework of a man who was a freethinker in his youth. The Te Deum includes a most urgent prayer, and Verdi asked that the music be buried with him. Carlo Maria Giulini leads the Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus (240 voices) in a stereophonic recording that matches the soaring splendor of the music...
Considering all the nasty things foreign visitors have said about the U.S., there was no reason to expect anything different from a devout Russian Communist who spent two weeks...
...results for the devout Tantric Buddhist are frenzies of mystical ecstasy. By absorbing the image entirely so that the mind can re-create and understand its every detail, the worshiper has transcended all life, even the image, and is well on his way to nirvana-leaving his art behind...