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...weight because under Russian persecution, even more than under foreign partition, the church was a symbol of freedom. The story is told of a man in church during the bitter pre-Gomulka days who remained standing during Mass. His neighbors tugged at his sleeve, but he stubbornly refused to kneel. "I'm an atheist," he explained. "Then why do you come to Mass?" they asked. "Because," he said, "I'm against the government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Cardinal & the Commissar | 5/20/1957 | See Source »

...Gentlemen, I am a Catholic," the candidate told Salford voters. "As far as possible, I go to Mass every day. This is a rosary. As far as possible, I kneel down and tell these beads every day. If you reject me on account of my religion, I shall thank God that he has spared me the indignity of being your representative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Great French Englishman | 4/22/1957 | See Source »

...nearly half a century. In this dreamworld of his own anesthetized devising, Mr. Arcularis falls in love with a pretty shipmate, but in the darkness of night he keeps sleepwalking gruesomely to the ship's refrigerating plant and tries to pry open a coffin: "And I'll kneel there, looking down at my own dead face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Last Journey | 2/4/1957 | See Source »

Cranks (by John Cranko; music by John Addison) is a pint-sized English revue with a Jeroboam's worth of frills. Three men and a girl squeal or kneel or sit with their backs to the audience, climb things while they rhyme things, weave about or dance or contort while singing ballads or blues. In a welter of shifting lights, one revue number slithers into the next while the performers act as their own stagehands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Revue in Manhattan, Dec. 10, 1956 | 12/10/1956 | See Source »

...want to kneel in heaven's left field with minor league prophets and all. I'm running this race for a major league place

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Sister Act | 7/30/1956 | See Source »

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