Word: ezekiel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...century." His heart throbs for Capitu, a dark-haired Juliet with "eyes like the tide when the undertow is strong." Bento's mother had dedicated him to the church at birth, but the seminary is not for Bento. He wins his release along with a seminarist friend named Ezekiel, and goes off to law school. Then he comes home to win the hand of Capitu...
...refuge in the castle of the Wartburg, the representatives of Germany's Protestants -seven-eighths Lutheran and the rest Calvinists of the Reformed faith-met to consider a church union. At a crucial moment in a long and stalemated discussion, Dibelius got up to preach. His text was Ezekiel 37:22: "And I will make them one nation." And, as he puts it, it was the one sermon of his life that "moved a mountain." The delegates went on to push through the constitution of the Evanglische Kirche in Deutschland (E.K.D.)-the Evangelical Church of Germany. Dibelius...
...newsstands all over the U.S., "pornography is big business." So reported a special House committee last week, after investigating what it called an "incredible volume" of "cheesecake girlie magazines," "salacious" pocket-size books, and "flagrantly misnamed 'comics.' " The committee, headed by Arkansas Democratic Congressman E. (for Ezekiel) C. Gathings, found a big increase in "lewd magazines" and in the number of "obscene" books among the 200 million pocket-size books sold in 1951. In addition, the committee declared that of the 70 million comic books sold last year in the U.S., many (e.g., "war horror comics...
...gave $182,000 to the Institute of Pacific Relations, which in 1952 was denounced by the McCarran Committee as an "instrument of Communist policy." It also paid out about $15,000 in small sums to such leftists as Professor Frederick Schuman of Williams College, and Economist Mordecai Ezekiel, listed by the House Un-American Activities Committee as a member of the American League for Peace and Democracy and of the Southern Conference on Human Welfare. All in all, said the endowment's President Joseph E. Johnson, the endowment had spent something more than $246,000 on people and organizations...
...star performer, who launched the House investigation of TV: Congressman Ezekiel Gathings of West Memphis, Ark., who enlivened his testimony with an impromptu shimmy to demonstrate how a grass-skirted TV actress danced a hoochie-coochie. Said Statesman Gathings in breathless summary: "The rashest thing I ever viewed...