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World War II Candidates. The Vatican's new list of causes contains a number that date back for centuries; one of the longest-standing is that of the 15th century painter Fra Angelico, who is still only a "servant of God." But two potential saints owe their candidacies to World War II Nazi persecution. One is the Polish Franciscan priest Maximilian Kolbe, who was shipped to a concentration camp in 1939. There one day, Father Kolbe volunteered to take the place of a married man who had been scheduled for punishment. The penalty: death by starvation in Auschwitz...
...full use of his small but uniformly excellent cast. As the cruel and brutish playboy, Maurice Ronet stands out from the mass of playboys murdered in thrillers. When Marge puts off making love to lecture him on art, he explodes, destroys her notes, and roars "Why do you mix Fra Angelico and love...
...Virgin Mary herself is no cool, pale fresco by Fra Angelico-blue rings encircle her eyes in her "dark, wheat-colored skin," and she is miserable about her son Jesus' brooding and preaching: "God sent me but one boy, and he a blemished one." She wants him to be a man "like everyone else . . . Let him marry a nice young girl from a respectable home-with a dowry; let him be a liberal provider, have children, and then we'll all go out together every Saturday to the promenade-grandma, children and grandchildren-so that everyone can admire...
Chemical Mutation. Tsugita and Fra«n-kel-Conrat worked with TMU, a virus that causes mosaic disease in tobacco plants. TMU's structure is extremely simple. All it has is a core of coiled-up RNA surrounded by a cylindrical jacket made of protein molecules. Tsugita and Fraenkel-Conrat first stripped off the jacket by use of a protein-dissolving chemical. Then they treated the naked RNA with nitrous acid, which is known to affect the RNA's code-carrying bases. After the nitrous acid had. acted, the RNA was enabled to clothe itself...
...with a deep-think session in a hot tub followed by ten hours at a hot desk. Nothing, apparently, can silence his own snare drums of opinion, or keep him from lapsing into double negatives when excited. Sample, on religion: "I think there is no religious revival at all. Fra Angelico kneeled to the Madonna because he was going to paint her, and she was his God. We don't kneel down to nothing any more, not even to a cash register...