Word: faithfulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...great majority of the some 350 Americans at the Festival were non-Communist. Of these about 150 participated directly through the contacts and encouragement of of the Independent Service (see Box); the remainder included 30 prematurely professional Communist party faith...
Died. Sumner H. Slichter, 67, white-thatched, aggressively independent economist, Lament Professor (1940-59) at Harvard, who tested his academic theories by constant contact with people active in business, labor and government, filled nine books and countless articles with a hard-headed faith in the buoyancy of the U.S. economy, condoned inflation as the price of increased productivity, and even (1959) urged a $3 billion annual federal deficit to sustain demand; of a kidney ailment; in Boston. A startlingly accurate economic prophet, Slichter usually championed the minority view. When his fellow economists took a leaf from Marx and gloomily predicted...
Saints issue from the hand of God, but they are canonized on earth. In what seems a paradox to most non-Catholics, the Roman Catholic Church brings the full light of reason to play on a complex mystery of faith: whether a man or woman has displayed Christlike sanctity, including the performance of miracles. To this question, the church brings the meticulous accounting of a bank examiner, the ferreting instincts of a good detective, and the judicial lore of centuries of precedents. In practice, these are embodied in an initial diocesan investigation of claims to sainthood, followed by a formal...
...scarred Southern Italy. The cult-prone townsfolk have taken to worshiping at the tomb of Giacomo Nerone, a mysterious World War II deserter who lived less than a year in the town before being shot by Communist partisans. The local bishop asks Rome to send a "Promoter of the Faith" or "Devil's Advocate" to sift the ambiguous signs of Nerone's saintliness...
...Eccentrics. With egotism their first article of faith, most of the Romantics were diary keepers; with the telephone yet to be invented, they were great letter writers. The letters and the diaries are Biographer Bigland's chief sources. Thus the reader can get detailed information on who was calling on the Shelleys in Pisa and who was snubbing them in Rome. Of the atmosphere in Europe that perhaps called the poets into being and that was certainly given a whole new range of colors by them, there is little in this genteel biography. In her account, Author Bigland...