Word: hus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Martin Luther had not been born when John Hus, Roman Catholic priest and rector of the University of Prague, thundered against the corruption of the church under the antipope John XXIII-simony, sale of indulgences, etc.-and cried out for reform. Tried for heresy, condemned and bound to the stake in 1415. he cried: "I shall die with joy in the faith of the Gospel I have preached!" Then the flames flared up, and their light has not yet died. Last week John Hus's followers, known now as the Moravian Church, celebrated their 500th anniversary...
...thus the only real showcase for both actors and playwrights. Several companies wish to produce new plays exclusively, thus achieving a workshop for both actor and writer that is self-supporting. Among these is Ira Cirker's New Theatre Company, which has taken a lease on the Jan Hus Theatre. Not only do these artists hope to get their daily bread, but also to mold a dynamic and living theatre. The Shakespearewrights are one of the most promising of these groups. Composed largely of Yale Drama School graduates, they have produced several works of the bard, and are now engaged...
...Episcopalian. There is no Index! For in the Anglican Communion there is most fully expressed the basic Christian belief that God reveals Himself, not in esoteric abstract speculation, but in history, 'in events through which we event,' in a St. Francis, in a St. John Hus, in the Celtic Saints...
...joined the Bolshevik Party and got an intense, if defective, party education. On his untrammeled peasant mind Marxist-Leninist theory had the power of revelation. He took the Stalinist line and stuck to it. T hus he became one of the realists of Communism, an undeviating supporter of power-in-being. With his bull-like energy, ready grasp of slogans, he was soon shouldering his way through the party ranks...
...selling roller skates at Macy's pays off. She meets and marries Beauregard Jackson Pickett Burnside, "the richest man under 40 south of Washington, D.C." She visits her husband's ancestral plantation, Peckerwood, meets his evil-tempered old mother, and trails a fox hunt in her hus band's Duesenberg. "I just hope I won't be sick when they kill that poor little fox," she confides to nephew Pat. Poor Auntie Mame has "never fully mastered the automobile." As the hounds come yelping down the road, the Duesenberg lurches forward, and Auntie Mame...