Word: franciscan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Schweitzer lives his ethic of Reverence for Life with a Franciscan absolutism. Rather than cut down trees that must be removed, he has often gone to considerable pains to get them transplanted...
With the solemnity of Supreme Court justices, twelve wine-tasters gathered last week in a private room at the California State Fair in Sacramento to choose the best California wines. They had an anxious audience. Since 1769, when Fra Junipero Serra, a Spanish Franciscan, planted the first wine grapes at the Mission of San Diego, viticulture had grown until it is California's biggest agricultural industry, with an investment of $475 million. Last year, California produced 87% of all the wine drunk...
This week, confident behind the big tone and brilliant technique which resembles the work of Jascha Heifetz, the violinist he most admires, Isaac Stern again took his place on the stage in front of another San Franciscan, walrus-mustached Pierre Monteux, the first conductor of the season at Lewisohn. Said Isaac: "When I look back, I tremble to think of other kids going through the same thing...
...excitement had swept the floor of the Palazzo Monte Citorio as the Assembly reached the Lateran question. Nobody but Togliatti and the Communists-and they were saving their surprise-was sure how the vote would divide. In the jammed public galleries there was a solemn checkerboard of Jesuit black, Franciscan brown, Dominican white-set off by the bright springtime pinks and blues of .snappily dressed women. The heads that craned forward were alternately tonsured and gaily feather-plumed...
Dazed, wild-eyed survivors, most of them dyed green by chemicals, scuttled off down the littered streets. They were soon met by police cars, fire trucks, ambulances and mobs of curious and frightened people. Franciscan friars ran for the wreckage, robes held high, to give the last sacrament. Firemen pried at timbers, pulled at protruding arms and legs. Fifteen bodies were found. One of the victims, a twelve-year-old Negro boy, had been killed by a section of iron pipe as he rode his bicycle two blocks away...