Word: fives
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Make a Point. Aristide Pierre Maurin was born 71 years ago on a farm in the Languedoc region of southern France. When Pierre was 14, he went away to a school near Paris run by the Christian Brothers; five years later he was teaching there. He heard much talk then of the "proletariat" and of revolution. But to farm-boy Maurin such solutions did not seem to be solutions at all. Man, he felt, should stay close to the land...
Easy Essays. Five years ago, Peter Maurin, who had stripped himself of everything else, lost the use of his mind, through arteriosclerosis of the brain. Virtually unable to think or talk, Maurin numbly lived out the end of his life at one of the communal farms he helped build near Newburgh, N.Y. But every issue of the Catholic Worker has carried at least one of the old "Easy Essays," and readers unaware of Maurin's illness have often written in to congratulate him on their timeliness. Wrote...
...Passion to its credit, Bethlehem's first Choral Union had broken up when it came to tackling the B Minor, which is technically difficult and emotionally demanding throughout its whole three-hour length. Said Founder Wolle: "They looked it over, and their ardor wilted." They disbanded. Five years later, a more determined group came together, rehearsed it for 14 months, then sang...
...baker had given him a few minutes earlier; he had just picked out a cake for the party to celebrate his first communion the next day. As the priest, a nurse and a passer-by knelt to comfort Michael in the few minutes left of his life, Robbins shot five pictures. Generously, he offered two of them to his old friend Bob Wendlinger, 27, a free-lance photographer for the New York Daily Mirror whose own camera had suddenly jammed...
...first issue of Mike Cowles's tiny (4 by 6 in.) magazine had a picture of Ingrid Bergman on the yellow-and-black cover, as she might appear through a telescope focused on Stromboli. The longest story in the magazine was five sentences; most were told in one sentence that was merely a paraphrase of a headline. There were 25 departments (Science, Sports, Male & Female, Fashions, etc.). Among the biggest departments (four pages) was "Quick Predicts," a kind of Kiplinger letter in monosyllables...