Word: friar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Earlier, the Providence freshmen handed the Crimson a 36-16 cross-country defeat. Friar runners took first, second, third, fifth, and sixth, with only Jim Smith placing for the Yardlings. Niel Houston took seventh place, and David Rice placed eighth for the Crimson...
...tutting over the sneaking admiration Britons seem to feel for criminals these days, Britain's sobersided Justice of the Peace & Local Government Review set about de-mything the most admired sneaks of them all, Robin Hood and his merry men. "Friar Tuck is certainly no example of how a High Churchman should behave," sniffed the Review. Maid Marian was "certainly no 'Maid.' " As for Robin, he was simply "an outlaw who had deserted his lawful wife for fun and games in the greenwood with Marian...
...Unworthy Friar. It was the sale of indulgences for good works that touched off Martin Luther to publish his 95 theses at Wittenberg. As a devout young Augustinian friar, Luther had been obsessed by the thought of his unworthiness as a sinful man before God, and no routine of works, confession, penance or asceticism could mitigate his spiritual anxiety. But seated one day in the study of the monastery, as he later related, Luther suddenly gained an insight into what St. Paul meant by the just living by faith. Luther interpreted Paul to mean that the sinner was justified only...
...Chinese Spaniards could find work in Peking. Bronston appeased the nation with touching short subjects. While filming Peking, he made a moving documentary about Franco's war memorial at the Valley of the Fallen. Last month he brought out a second documentary bone - this one about a Mallorcan friar who founded numerous California missions. Chief Justice Earl Warren generously contributed his presence to the Mallorcan premiere...
...Roman Catholic cannot be a Jew, the Israeli Supreme Court ruled last week. Before the, court was the case of Father Daniel, a Polish-born Jew who was converted to Catholicism and became a Carmelite friar (TIME, Dec. 7). He had claimed Israeli citizenship under provisions of the country's Law of Return, which declares: "Every Jew shall be entitled to come to Israel as an immigrant." Speaking for the court, Judge Moshe Silberg expressed deep sympathy for Father Daniel's desire to "identify himself with the people he loves," and suggested that the priest might still...