Word: devouting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...devout Roman Catholic, Roy Alexander went to Mass every day of his life. As he watched history flow by, he had a strong, unsurprised sense of the evil in human nature-and an even stronger conviction that it is inextricably bound up with good...
...readers have taken literally. A revision is overdue. The experience of going through these resonant tales, remembers the author, was some thing like what is supposed to happen when a man is drowning, as scene after scene of his life passes before his eyes. If the drowning man is devout, it can be imagined that in those final moments he examines the scenes to determine the balance between his sins and his virtues with a view toward eventual salvation. Since l am not particularly devout, my chances for salvation lie in a place sometime in the future on a library...
...chemical factory. There are persistent rumors that he was engaged or married during this time. The Vatican last week officially denied them, as do friends from those years. However, like many a young man he had an active social life, and at least one steady girlfriend. A devout tailor interested him in the writings of St. John of the Cross, Spain's 16th century Carmelite mystic, and in 1942, the year after his father died, Wojtyla decided to begin studies for the priesthood at an illegal underground seminary...
...Jastrow, a famous American Jewish author, Natalie is caught in Italy when the U.S. declares war. The trio's journey, a war-long struggle to escape, is dramatically paired with the agonies of Cousin Berel, a Polish Jew, in the concentration camps. The intertwining tales allow Wouk, a devout Jew, to measure the Nazi persecution...
DIED. Etienne Gilson, 94, renowned medieval philosophy scholar (among his works: History of Christian Philosophy in the Middle Ages) and oldest member of the French Academy; in Cravant, France. Gilson, son of a Paris businessman, was a devout Roman Catholic who gained lasting distinction in his field for his writings on St. Thomas Aquinas. Though he lectured at universities throughout France and the U.S., the Sorbonne-trained philosopher taught primarily at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies in Toronto, which he helped launch...