Word: gracefully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...formally accredited the miracolo, Pope Pius XII, in a message to Sicilians, has referred to the weeping Madonna: "So ardent are the people of Sicily in their devotion to Mary that who would marvel if she had chosen the illustrious city [of Syracuse] to give a sign of her grace...
...next five years he could probably not hit a single significant target. In the meantime SAC could and would pulverize, not Khrushchev, but his military capacities and his industrial strength. The world would be better off. Of course, if we go to sleep during that five-year grace period, we will have lost the war and the world...
...question-and-answer catechism, written by the grandfather of Boston's famed hell-fire-and-brimstone Preacher Cotton Mather, Spiritual Milk was designed to edify and scare the daylights out of colonial moppets, e.g.: "Q. What is your corrupt nature? Answ. My corrupt nature is empty of Grace, bent unto sin, and onely unto sin, and that continually." It ended with the threat and promise that "the Righteous shall go into life eternall, and the wicked shall be cast into everlasting fire with the Devil and his Angels...
Apparently both articles were arbitrarily assigned by the editor, who pays well. The anti-prep piece has the one saving grace of criticizing the medium and the audience for which it is written, in short, the Ivy myth. Aside from this quality, the author shows little concern with the disciplines of a private school education, and places too much emphasis on the sexual ineptitude of its products. The writer, however, gets off one classic generalization which almost makes his effort worthwhile: "In addition the society serving as the basis for the New England preparatory schools--th upperclass, urban East--cannot...
...best-loved books of the Spanish-speaking world, by the 1956 Nobel Prizewinner-138 prose poems about life and death in the author's home town in Spain. The poems are addressed to the narrator's companion, a donkey, with bittersweet and sensuous grace and delicacy...