Word: lay
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...projects as homes for unwed mothers and housing for the elderly. A notable achievement, the one he is most proud of, was the establishment of the Immaculate Heart Retreat House and a new kind of religious retreat involving private work with a spiritual director and, for the priests and lay Catholics who go there, a 30-day period of almost total silence and prayer. Says Topel: "Sometimes that brings remarkable changes in people's lives...
...schedule, gliding smoothly out of the airy Chinese-built station at 6:40 p.m. Picking up speed (to a jaunty 30 m.p.h.), the train, imported from China along with everything else that went into making the Tazara railway, headed southwest toward its Zambian terminus, which, according to the timetable, lay 36 hours away...
...scheduled ten-minute stop at Mbeya, a major station on the line, consumed four hours. About 300 yds. down the track from Mbeya, the train ground to a stop for two more hours, blocked this time by a derailed locomotive that lay sideways across the track, attended by an honor guard of solemn onlookers. Passengers transferred to another train on the other side of the locomotive. Ragged local children, helping to transfer luggage, amassed undreamed-of fortunes in tips...
...difference is no greater than that between Harvard and a Mid-West American college. Indeed, the "superior" atmosphere common to both "Oxbridge" and Ivy League (which many affect to despise, but secretly covet) may make things seem even cosier. There are the same manicured lawns, lay-out of staircase and quadrangle, dining clubs and societies, even the same assiduous cultivation of alumni and roll-calls of the "great and just" shuttling through to impart their wisdom to the student body...
...Synod of Bishops, now a powerless, muted body. Observers of the Polish church scene note that Wojtyla turned the meetings of Poland's bishops from a rubber stamp for Wyszynski into a collegial and more powerful voice of the church. In his own archdiocese, he sought priestly and lay involvement through an innovative "Pastoral Synod," a seven-year series of discussions on church affairs reminiscent of far more radical nationwide gatherings in Holland that were banned by the Vatican...