Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Actionist Deputy Piero Calamandrei, rector of Florence University, told a Boccaccio-flavored anecdote to express his opposition to the contradictions of a Constitution which proclaimed both religious equality and the preferential position of one faith: "This reminds me of the old man in Florence who had two mistresses, one young and the other old. The man's hair was partly black, partly grey. Each of his mistresses wanted him completely for herself. So the young mistress tore out all his grey hair, while the old one tore out all the black. The poor man's head of course...
...responsible for sun-spots," snapped mystic mathematician Premier Eamon de Valera at his critics. And while Dev doodled oversize hieroglyphics, at his side nervous, lanky Agriculture Minister Patrick Smith could only assure the Dail that "with the help of God" the weather would mend. "I have faith in the mercy of God," piously echoed an Opposition frontbencher. Like the Government, the Opposition had no further ideas...
...economic activity, becomes a happy hunting ground for uncurbed acquisitiveness, and religion becomes a refined occupation for the leisure of the mystical. It is in the sacramental view of the universe, both of its material and of its spiritual elements, that there is given hope of ... making effectual both faith and hope. ... It is such a view which affords the strongest hope for the continuance in reality of religious faith and practice...
Yeshiva's handsome, young (35) president, Dr. Samuel Belkin, seized the special occasion to take exception to some of the methods used by "misguided zealots" to improve understanding between Jews and Christians. "The world today," he declared, "suffers from a laxity of faith and the great need of this moment is not so much the 'watering down' of particular religious beliefs but rather a greater and firmer conviction of one's own religion...
...this novel, 18 years of life on an Iowa farm are itemized with raw fidelity and strapping lyricism. Subtitled "a novel of faith in the earth," it is also a novel of bitterness over the gutting and misuse of the earth by first-and second-generation U.S. settlers. The theme is large, simple and an incitement to soil conservation. At times the treatment has an earthy swell and eloquence. But Author Feikema works his lesson so hard that before readers reach the end of the book, they will be worn...