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...only got her school, she also be came something of a legend in her life time. A devout Methodist, she would start each morning with a prayer, e.g., "With this new day, O God, let some new strength be mine." And each day, some new strength was indeed hers, until Mary Bethune became known throughout the nation as the First Lady of her race...
...feminist and a onetime Senator, Phibun has six grown children, entertains in a sumptuous Bangkok palace. He serves Coca-Cola to guests (a son-in-law is a local Coke concessionaire), and, like Coca-Cola Tycoon James Farley, he has a fondness for green furniture and carpets. Phibun, a devout Buddhist, was born on a Wednesday, and green is the lucky color for Wednesday's children in Thailand. (One of his prewar decrees made dancing compulsory in government offices on Wednesday afternoons.) A canny politician, he is an un-Thaipically lively, dynamic leader of a languid, gentle people...
...which was never remotely contemplated, according to De Santillana), the drama of the Inquisition lies in Galileo's abject recantation of his life's work. For this, Author de Santillana offers plausible reasons. Galileo was in his 70th year, ill and afraid. Moreover, he was a devout Catholic. "He had realized at last that the authorities were not interested in truth but only in authority . . . Moralist historians . . . forget that he was a member of the Apostolic Roman communion and had to submit in some...
...beginning of civil war. Gironella tries to mirror every segment of Spanish society, from wild-eyed anarchists to stuffy professors, "from the bishop to the bootblack." The novel's hero, if it has one, is Ignacio, ison of a poor but intelligent civil servant. His mother is a devout Catholic, his brother a saintly boy headed for the priesthood. Ignacio's dilemma is that he likes to see things whole, can swallow neither the fiery threats and promises of the anarchists and Communists nor the sterile programs of the conservatives. He hates poverty, but he also hates violence...
...from the Files. Mother Mary Columba, once Elizabeth H. Tarpey, was born in Philadelphia to an Irish mother and an English father ("I wouldn't say he was very devout, but Mother was"), went to Catholic grade and high school. When she was twelve, she heard a Jesuit speak on Indian missions and wanted to leave at once. Her parents managed to persuade her to wait. While she waited, she read (Mark Twain and Horatio Alger in public, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the sly), eventually went to work as bookkeeper for Shellenberger Inc. (candy manufacturers). Six years later...