Word: innsbruck
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Last fortnight he was in Innsbruck, Austria, lecturing to students on writing. A few days later he was in Munich, followed by a train of young people. A few days after that, he was in Switzerland. Wherever he went, he talked-in English, French or German-bouncing in & out of chairs, filling his young audience's ears with an endless stream of neat, witty, slightly pedantic but somehow most exciting talk...
...piety. Both his parents, however, were attentive Catholics, and from boyhood, as John LaFarge remembers, "the idea of being a priest came to me naturally." He did not let his secular education (Harvard '01) nor his promise as a concert pianist interfere. At 21, he went to Innsbruck to study for the priesthood...
...Innsbruck reference is, in its entirety, the opinion of one of the American delegates--and is clearly expressed as such. Nowhere do I endorse it as my own; your implication here is dishonest...
From his headquarters in Innsbruck, Zagon keeps in precarious touch with Catholics inside Hungary. Refugees report that despite persecution of the hierarchy, parish churches have never been so full. Because almost any preaching may expose them to Communist wrath, priests have taken to reading from the gospels in place of preaching sermons. The prayer "Free Me from Evil" draws such a response as to be almost a political demonstration...
...concern of the Skiman. The effect should be that of cosmopolitan carelessness. It will be noted that only the amateur Skiman lets ski-two tickets congregate on his collar or belt. The true Skiman's jacket is bare and somewhat battered. In advanced cases, a small shoulder-patch, reading "Innsbruck," is permissible. One of the best ploys is mismatched skis, preferably one white and one brown, or one racing ski and one cross-country ski. This is the famous "Sturm and Drang" technique; it give the Skiman a chance to explain that his skis were carved especially by Ole, with...