Word: gavrilo
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...natural climax to student movements, since after all what Freud's "primal sons" want to do to Father is symbolically kill him. In Feuer's version of history, the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, which precipitated World War I, reads like this: the young Bosnian student Gavrilo Princip "finally achieved his place as a father-destroyer . . . even though it also meant the destruction of himself and the maiming of European civilization...
Eisenstein pits Nevsky against diabolic Swedes in brutal-looking helmets and flapping white robes. Nevsky's heroism is magnified by comparison with his lieutenants Buslai and Gavrilo--heroes on a more human scale...
High point of the occasion for Britons when the baptismal delegation was received in London: the embrace of bearded Serbian Patriarch Gavrilo and the Rt. Hon. and Most Rev. Geoffrey F. Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury, who ceremoniously kissed each other thrice on the right cheek...
Ordeal and Rebirth. Yet when the war came, the legends of resistance seeping out of occupied countries were starred with names of heroic men of God. Niemöller, Faulhaber and Galen in Germany itself, Hlond in Poland, De Jong in Holland, Damaskinos* in Greece and the aged Patriarch Gavrilo Dozich in Yugoslavia, all stood firm against the Nazis. With them stood a host of unnamed churchmen, like the 1,300 priests slaughtered in Poland, the priest and the pastor in Czechoslovakia who together faced a firing squad avenging the death of Heydrich the Hangman, and the French priest active...
...wall behind white-bearded Leader Pechanatz hung a picture of Gavrilo Princip, the assassin who shot and killed the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand at Sarajevo in 1914, thus started World War I. In a corner, on the floor, lay the bleached skeleton of a Chetnik hero. Said Leader Pechanatz, with a casual wave of his arm: "His mother comes to see me every few weeks. She often asks whose skeleton that is. I have never told her. I am hard, but not that hard...