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Luther's slow rebellion during the next decade is a puzzling, fascinating story to theologian and psychiatrist alike. Tentatively, the earnest, orthodox-minded monk began to stray from the fold-and with every step he took, a new, hidden facet appeared in his character until he became the very opposite of his former self...
...A.F.L. began an extended campaign to bring Harvard employees into the fold last spring, and assigned five full-time organizers for this purpose...
Abrams believes that the Russians had a three-fold aim in staging the Festival. First, they were trying to convince the 30,000 delegates from all over the world that Russia is a land of peace and prosperity; second, they sought to placate signs of discord among the youth of the country by distracting them with the show of the century; and third, they were making a grandstand play for favorable world-wide publicity...
...Unionistic Congress of the Roman Catholic Church at St. Procopius Abbey in Lisle. Ill., 125 delegates discussed hopes for the return of all Christians to the Roman Catholic fold-especially those who "left the church as a result of the Eastern schism of 1054." i.e., the Greek and Russian Orthodox Churches. In preparation for the day when Roman Catholicism may once again be free to teach and preach in Russia, monks are in training in the Catholic Eastern Rite at Holy Trinity Priory near Pittsburgh, as well as at Fordham and in Rome. The Russian Orthodox Church would have been...
...inhabitants-predominantly Semites-got little chance to enjoy the oil and honey. Around 2000 B.C. they were conquered by Hammurabi, the great lawgiver of Babylon; later their homeland was a perennial battleground for the Hittites and the Egyptians. Then Sennacherib the Assyrian "came down like the wolf on the fold," to be followed over the centuries by Nebuchadnezzar, the Persians, Alexander the Great and, finally, in 64 B.C., Pompey...