Word: errand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lucky ones," Domenico thinks, and Director Olmi does not explicitly contradict him. He simply watches the boy put on his uniform, sit at his desk, run an errand here and an errand there, find out how bosses talk to office boys ("Will power works miracles!"), pick up some wisdom at the water cooler ("Never trust a man with two nostrils"), peer into his first pay envelope, start a little office romance (Loredana Detto), survive a big office party, inspect a dozen dismal, petty employees who function as industrial implements but do not live...
This organizational change will complement a theological reform that presumably will be enacted by the council in the first item on the session's agenda: De Ecclesia (On the Church). Since the definition of papal infallibility in 1870, bishops have often seemed to be little more than Vatican errand boys. Yet the traditional teaching of the church is that bishops are just as truly descendants of the apostles as the Pope -a doctrine that will be brought out with new clarity in De Ecclesia...
...distinctive American nationalism. His declaration that the 'life and soul' of true union is neither interest nor mutual prosperity but 'love of the brethren' controlled, for an equal span of years, the prevailing American definition of patriotism." They go on to show the persistence of this element of the errand, the drive toward American union, in men like Whitman and Lincoln...
...Errand Today...
...well, especially to one so given to jeremiads as our own. Historians, like individuals, tell and retell their stories, hoping finally to tell them right, to arrive at a definition of the past which carries its own sort of eloquence. And even as impending national maturity crowds the historical errand into new postures, the grand old jeremiad, when well told, retains its impact, and its relevance