Word: lenten
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...government could move, the Spanish hierarchy rallied behind Añoveros. In Bilbao, priests, nuns and lay people by the thousands signed petitions and flocked to see him. "He is a good man," said one elderly Basque. "Good men are rare, and he must stay." Pope Paul interrupted a Lenten retreat to oversee discussions on the Spanish crisis. Long-distance conference calls hummed between Rome and Archbishop Luigi Dadaglio, the papal nuncio in Madrid, as Vatican diplomats sought ways to avoid an open rupture with Franco without compromising "the demands of justice...
Harvard University Choir. A special Lenten service. Bach: Motet No. 5; Purcell: Evening Service music. Free. Sunday, March...
...complained that in his favorite Mrs. Adler's matzoh-ball soup, the number of malzoh balls per can had sunk from four to three, in effect raising the price. Humorist Art Buchwald fantasized that President Nixon will lake to the TV screens and ask, as an ultimate post-Lenten sacrifice, for his fellow Americans simply to stop eating. In an ad for a Washington supermarket chain, Esther Peterson, who had been Lyndon Johnson's consumer affairs adviser, appealed to consumers to buy fish, fowl, eggs and other substitutes for costly meat...
...church dictatorially directed by atheists is a spectacle that has not been seen for 2,000 years," lamented Alexander Solzhenitsyn last week. In an unpublished "Lenten Letter" that is widely circulating in Moscow, the famed novelist accused Patriarch Pimen, the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church, of abject submission to the Kremlin's antireligious policies...
...same time, his writings remain banned, while a campaign of vilification rages against him. In the face of these ordeals, Solzhenitsyn's faith seems to have given him a new serenity, which is reflected in a little-known prayer that may be regarded as another equally eloquent Lenten Letter from Solzhenitsyn...