Word: greyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some Catholics are diffident about this doctrine, but others push it to extremes. The leading U.S. extremist is a grey-haired, ex-Jesuit priest in Boston, Father Leonard Feeney; he insists that no one who is not a Catholic can get to heaven. When he refused to stop expounding this belief, he was suspended in 1949 from his functions as a priest by Boston's Archbishop Richard J. Gushing, and expelled from the Jesuit order. Since then, he and a small group of followers, known as the Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, have continued to preach their...
...Byzantine and Romanesque art. In his stained glass he tries to mirror the restrained magnificence of his anonymous idols. Restricting himself to 20 hues of glass-chosen from 15,000 commercially available-he assembles his windows with an artisan named Karl Ganz, then paints them in grisaille (i.e., grey glaze). The whole job (composing, assembling, painting, firing, leading) takes up to three years, and only when the glass is finally installed can the artist see his work as a living entity, vibrating with the light...
...themselves, countless children in Asia, Africa and South America suffer from kwashiorkor (a West African word meaning red boy), Capetown's Dr. John F. Brock reported in Manhattan. Fed mainly on manioc gruel, they are stunted and their skin and hair lose pigment, making them look reddish or grey. For short-term relief, U.N. agencies are supplying thousands of tons of dried skim milk, rich in protein. But in the long run, said Dr. Brock, these primitive peoples must be taught to feed their children beans, which they can raise...
...reveille the cadets fell in on the weather deck of the training ship, stripped to the waist, washed and shaved out of ice-filled buckets of water. On shore the treatment was reversed: pushups with everyone swaddled in three pairs of pajamas, two blue uniforms, a grey overcoat, woolen cap, steel helmet and pack, in a room as hot as a pressure cooker...
More wonderful than man; the storm-grey...