Word: latter-day
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...heal, "to bring people off from all the world's religions, which are vain, that they might know the pure religion, and might visit the fatherless, the widows and the strangers, and keep themselves from the spots of the world."-He and his followers saw themselves as latter-day Prophets, trying to bring their people back to the live faith and concrete charitable sacrifice of primitive Christianity. He scorned churches, which he called "steeplehouses," and he wanted no organized, salaried ministry, but he knew his Bible backward & forward...
Nearly all of the world's most beautiful churches are pure Gothic, and many of the least beautiful are latter-day imitation Gothic. Even in the functional-minded mid-20th century, few architects have tried to break the mold, and only a rare few have had any success at it. One of the boldest tries is Joseph D. Murphy's gymnasium-like St. Ann's Catholic Church in Normandy...
...tunes and the orchestra squirms morbidly, almost as if improvising without a director. But the listener who sits through the first half gets his reward. In the calmer second half, the music becomes almost songful, with a kind of lyrical lassitude that might have been shown by a latter-day Wagner. When it is all over, the wildly scattered scenes fall together and make dramatic sense...
...latter-day switch, as adapted from Josephine Tey's 1949 novel on the famous 18th century case of a domestic servant named Elizabeth Canning of Aldermanbury, England, who falsely accused an old woman of keeping her prisoner in a loft and soliciting her to lead an immoral life...
...Mauno Pekkala, 62, postwar Premier of Finland (1946-48), who negotiated the hated mutual assistance pact with the Soviet Union; of pneumonia following a stroke; in Helsinki. He won national recognition for his work as acting director (1937-44) of the state forest service, less favorable notice for his latter-day fellow-traveling with the Reds...