Word: lay
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mayor Armand Isnard and his villagers were only too happy to oblige, and before long Madame, whose first husband made a fortune on a chain of newsreel cinemas, was lavishing her three boundless resources-romantic enthusiasm, energy and hard cash-on medieval restoration. She trained masons to lay a new roof on the chapel and made them do it over four times to suit her. The castle towers, which Mayor Isnard once threatened to tear down before they tumbled, now jut sturdily into the air. Two massive feudal gates again open and close off the town, and once-buried streets...
...work on the paper, it is still largely staffed by oldtime party members. The readership is similarly middleaged. Blandness seems to be the chief weakness of the World, as well as a certain amateurism. On page 3 of an issue last week, a story told how "Dick Gregory lay gravely ill" in a jail while friends feared for his life. On page 8 of the same issue was a photograph of Gregory just after his release from jail with the caption: "Dick's back." But to the faithful, the Daily World, no less than the Worker before it, remains...
...strong advocate of reform within the society. In 1957 he was named head of the Jesuits' Woodstock College, where he helped develop a brilliant staff of teaching theologians, which included the late Father John Courtney Murray. Three years ago, Sponga was named Maryland provincial, supervising 800 priests, lay brothers and seminarians...
...arrant nonsense. The Congolese national army, which it depicts as heroic, was in fact undisciplined and corrupt. The Simba rebels, portrayed as raping terrorists, were in fact relatively disciplined. Held in thrall by a powerful black dawa (magic), the Simbas were forbidden to steal from the whites or even lay hands on a white woman-whose touch, they believed, was evil...
...Kahn's main solution lay in finding modern-day equivalents for Shakespeare's topicalities and fads. I am by nature a purist, and do not condone tampering with works of art. But this is one of the rare exceptions. The purist approach does not work; Kahn's does. It's as simple as that...