Word: luthers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...security police a few yards from its doors, and he has not been heard from. Despite such threats by a hostile state, the Marienkirche is crowded with worshipers who are giving a new and challenging witness to the 400-year-old community of the church of Martin Luther...
...Germans respect Dibelius as they have respected few churchmen, past or present. Standing in the Marienkirche pulpit, vested in a black, three-quarter length Luther Rock (coat), he preaches to them in the blunt Gospel language of a Reformation patriarch. A stiffly mannered figure with a face made more impressive by a natural tonsure, small sharp eyes and a heavy, bristling goatee, he is also clothed in the dignity which Prussians think a Herr Bischof ought to have...
...larger of the two Germanys occupies the north and east, lies astride the Iron Curtain barrier. It is Protestant and Prussian, a culture half bourgeois and half aristocratic, a nation that looks East as well as West. This is the nationalist Germany hewn out by Martin Luther in the 16th century when he made his people's declaration of independence, political as well as spiritual, from the tottering visible unity of Rome. This is the Germany which has now been ripped in two by the war of Communism and the democracies. This is the Germany of Otto Dibelius. Once...
...Francisco, Willie Mosconi successfully defended his world pocket-billiard championship for the eleventh time in twelve years by beating Luther Lassiter, 150-33, in the title match. Mosconi's reward...
...Sketches for the 1541 Martin Luther Bible...