Word: geniuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gospels are the last marvelous expression of the Greek genius, as the IIiad is the first: here the Greek spirit reveals itself not only in the injunction given mankind to seek above all other goods, 'the kingdom and justice of our Heavenly Father,' but also in the fact that human suffering is laid bare, and we see it in a being who is at once divine and human. The accounts of the Passion show that a divine spirit, incarnate, is changed by misfortune, trembles before suffering and death, feels itself, in the depths of its agony...
Saint Theresa of Avila, "the Saint of Ecstasy," divided her existence equally between earthly toil and divine rapture. Her strenuous earthly labors led to her founding of the order of Discalced Carmelites; her ecstatic transports made her _one of the world's great mystic poets. Half genius of the supernatural, half militant nun, Theresa's gifts to posterity have become part of "the inalienable possessions of mankind...
...Administration once tried to make all of its own limbs (the few shops it has now are only yardsticks). But the A.L.M.A. talked this project down. It argued that Government manufacture of limbs would destroy free enterprise and inventive genius...
...Msgr. Henri Dutoit, Bishop of Arras. In 1941 a German D.N.B. dispatch quoted him as writing in a pastoral letter: "Collaboration is no slavery. ... He who collaborates should not be denied placing his own genius and his own resources at the disposal of the joint effort to enhance the value of this collaboration." Last fall, Bishop Dutoit was seized and sent to an internment camp. It was the first official action, after the liberation, against one of the Roman Catholic hierarchy. ¶ Msgr. Francois Auvity, Bishop of Mende. He recently apologized in a pastoral letter for having advised French youths...
...third of the $30,000 Nobel Prize in medicine; sharing it with him were two less publicized British penicillinists-Sir Howard Walter Florey, organizer of the research team which found practical means of extracting the capricious drug, and Dr. Ernst Boris Chain, the team's chief research genius...