Word: greek
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Representing 17 churches and religious organizations, the observers encompass all major Christian groups except the Greek Orthodox, the fundamentalist sects and the Baptists.* Their churches range from the Russian Orthodox, which considers itself part of the Catholic Church, to the Unitarian Universalist. which does not acknowledge the divinity of Jesus Christ. At his "family gathering" for the non-Catholics last week, Cardinal Bea asked the observers to "grant us complete confidence and tell us very frankly everything you dislike, to share with us your positive criticisms, your suggestions and your desires...
...founded the second Phillips in his own town of Exeter, N.H. Andover was soon awash with Lees of Virginia, New England Quincys, Lowells, Longfellows. Samuel F. B. Morse arrived at eight and ran away. Many a poor farm boy walked 50 miles carrying his suitcase and a headful of Greek grammar to enter the best school around...
Phaedra proves a number of things: that Jules Dassin knows how to direct a movie; that antique Greek tragedy can be done as modern cinema brilliantly and meaningfully; that Melina Mercouri is as achingly believable as a tragedienne as she was believably zany as a comedienne (in Never on Sunday); and that Tony Perkins had better go back to making thrillers for Hitchcock...
...Greek & Graceful. The letters show Wilde as something far more than the talented fop of his own self-caricature. The collection begins with fond early letters from Wilde to his friends at Magdalen College, Oxford. Their nicknames are "Kitten," "Bouncer" and "Puss" (Wilde's was "Hosky"). Wilde's active homosexualism is not thought to have begun until years later; nothing is to be inferred from cute nicknames or cuddly phrases beyond the surrogate sexuality common to young upper-class British males in Victorian times. The public-school youth of those years lived a womanless life from the time...
...Lithuania, a country that is mostly Catholic and has been cut off from Rome for years, sent Bishop Petras Mazelis. In the first official contact in five centuries between the Catholic and Orthodox churches, the Orthodox hierarchy in Moscow sent two observers. This break in Orthodox unity angered the Greek Orthodox hierarchy, made that church, which had been wavering, much more firm in its decision not to send observers...