Word: fey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Last year the Century widened complacent Protestant eyes with field editor Harold E. Fey's frank series: "Can Catholicism Win America...
Criticism of Y.F.C. has been religious as well as political. Associate Editor Harold E. Fey of the Christian Century has scathingly compared its "milky abstractions" with the "solid meat" of the great evangelists in the American religious tradition: in Youth for Christ rallies "a great deal is said about salvation, but nobody attempts to define...
When Author Seton kills off Father & Mother Cameron in a few swift pages of cholera and hemorrhages, kindly Mexicans adopt Fey. Later, handsome, rascally Terry Dillon finds Fey a helpful partner in selling Dr. Dillon's Extra Special Elixir, a snake oil whose chief ingredient is river water. Said the Indians: "The Great Spirit meant you for a better destiny...
Terry married Fey, took her to Manhattan. When Fey became pregnant, Terry walked out on her. So Fey danced and sang in low cabarets, read Walt Whitman, and worked in the Quaker hospital where her daughter Lucy was born. "I would not bother with thee, Fey," said the Quaker woman doctor, "did I not know thee has glimpses of the Light within." But naughty Fey glimpsed nothing but Railroad Tycoon Simeon Tower, whom she married after divorcing Terry...
After a dramatic trial scene, Author Seton packs Fey off to New Mexico again, where she devotes the rest of her life to "patient day-by-day self-sacrifice...