Word: dominicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plan, and every man was suspicious of all but his oldest friends. An underground handbill proclaimed to the fainthearted: "The voice of the people is the voice of God!" Citizens of the little Dutch city of Huissen (pop. 7,340) had determined to break down the door of the Dominican chapel...
...often recognized as saintly. A wartime refugee in Britain, she virtually starved herself to death at 34 because, though exhausted from overwork, she would not eat more than the ration in occupied France. But what are Christians to make of Simone Weil's attitude toward the church? The Dominican priest who was her spiritual adviser is sure that, had she lived, she would have accepted baptism. Simone Weil doubted it. A brilliant intellectual who found God after wading through agnosticism and Marxism, she thought her mission was to remain "on the threshold" of the church, a bridge between believers...
Tala is now the second biggest of the six leper colonies in the Philippines. There, 16 hours a day, six days a week, 48-year-old Dominican Father Hofstee lives and works among Tala's 938 men, 529 women and 225 children. He knows them all. Everywhere he goes-in markets, infirmaries, schools and streets-he stops to chat. For children he has jokes and candy. He cheers the men ("You're a bright boy; you should try and write stories to keep yourself busy") and joshes the women. "Ah, my pretty doll...
...found a door open, leading into vast, dimly lit souterrains. After a look at the enormous stone cenotaphs buried in dust, the colonel . . . left and finally found a rabbi, from whom to take the town over. Later on, when Meinertzhagen discussed his experience with [Father Hugues] Vincent, the famous Dominican archeologist, it became clear that he had actually been in the mausoleum of the patriarchs, missing in his hurry a unique and irretrievable chance for research . . . THEODORE F. MEYSELS Jerusalem...
...those cocktail parties, in his Washington embassy, the Dominican Republic's ambassador, Dr. Luis Thomen, pinned his country's Order of Juan Pablo Duarte (highest decoration given a foreigner) on Major General Anthony C. ("Nuts") McAuliffe, hero of Bastogne. On hand to get the same medal (his tenth foreign decoration): Major General Harry Vaughan, for "outstanding service to humanity . . . a staunch defender of the lofty ideals of western civilization...