Word: lenten
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...took over Thailand's government, abrogated the constitution, dissolved the Parliament, abolished political parties, and set up martial law. Since most of the democratic trappings of the country were more apparent than real, Thailand did not seem to mind such highhandedness at all. Weeks ago, as the Buddhist Lenten season of Purima Pansa began. Thai temples gleamed with new coats of gold in keeping with the old adage. "When the temples shine, the country is prosperous...
...first of a series of four Sunday Lenten evening services of music will be held on Sunday at 8 p.m. in Memorial Church...
...shoes and textiles, imports rich tourists. Kingston is where Harry Belafonte had to "leave a little girl" in the famed calypso song. ¶ Trinidad (pop. 622,500). the richest (per-capita yearly income: $434), bustles with its prosperous oil industry. It stages the hemisphere's most tireless pre-Lenten carnival dance, in which the performer leans over backwards and wriggles under a bar nine inches off the floor. Racially, it is a polyglot of Negro. East Indian, Portuguese and Chinese. ¶ Barbados grows seven-eighths of a ton of sugar a year for each of its 230,500 inhabitants...
...Speaking to Lenten preachers, priests and seminarians, Pope Pius XII condemned the sexy art work that enlivens Roman walls. "To choose only one recent case," he said, "an important daily newspaper gave a highly colored description of two huge licentious posters . . . Who can tell what ruin in souls, especially those of youngsters, such images may provoke, how many dirty thoughts and feelings they may produce . . . ?" Within a few days a brigade of poster men were out with their buckets and brushes covering the life-large posters of buxom Cinemactress Marisa Allasio...
...thunderclap of ecclesiastical anger cracked last week around the ears of Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, Colombia's Roman Catholic President. It was set off by the Lenten pastoral letter of Crisanto Cardinal Luque, couched in the measured terms of churchly tradition, yet unmistakably a cry of cold indignation against the recent bull ring massacre (TIME, Feb. 20) in which Rojas' political opponents were maimed and killed by government thugs for having booed his daughter at the bullfights the week before...