Word: gatherings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Around in Rags. Father Zimmers' lay theologians will take no vows, practice only such asceticism as is normal for laymen. "We may go around in rags," says Keene, "but it won't be because we've taken any vow of poverty." Once a year, they will gather to trade ideas and take exams in their continuing studies "to prevent them from getting to be theological slobs," says Zimmers...
...wrote Karl Marx 118 years ago. The Marxists duly abolished religion, and happiness reigned among the people. But in Communist Poland, and perhaps in Russia too, a dreadful question is beginning to be heard in the classrooms and corridors and the cafés where young people gather-a question with dangerous implications and unforeseeable consequences, a question that might even open a side door to that ancient troublemaker, God. The question: What is the meaning of life...
...conservative princes tend to gather behind Budget-Balancer Feisal. Recently a dozen of them showed their feelings and snubbed the King by refusing to show up at the airport to greet him when he made a ceremonial visit to Jiddah. If the reforms come too swiftly-or if spending gets out of hand-Talal and Tariki could find themselves out and the Feisal crowd back in. The dilemma, according to one Saudi, is that "Feisal 'feels that reforms will topple the throne, while Talal feels that without them the throne will topple." But both are loyal to the King...
...What we are doing here," said Director Pater Bonifatius Fischer. 46, "is research into the basis of our spiritual world, to gather whatever has been left intact from the old Latin Bible texts that caused Christianity to sweep like wildfire through the antique world...
...white-sailed windmills. In any of the little plateau villages, a traveler can buy his lunch merely by hailing, say, the butcher, who will put a table outside and provide wine, bread and cheese, while curious, good-natured Greeks in baggy trousers, sashes, boots, brocaded vests and fierce mustaches gather round and ask the stranger's name, occupation, origin and income...