Word: moons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bishop Fulton J. Sheen of New York sing the first pontifical Mass (Byzantine rite) ever offered in English. The congregation joined in prayer for the conversion of Russia. Bishop Sheen prayed that the Communist hammer-and-sickle symbol "may be transfigured so that the sickle will look like the moon under Our Lady's feet and the hammer like the cross from which Christ will forgive His persecutors." ¶Peking Communist magazine, China Youth, admitted to its readers that religious believers offer a special problem to brainwashers. "People can break any idol, but this won't wash...
...side of the Acropolis beneath Athens' magnificent Parthenon. Many of its marble seats stayed unchipped over the centuries; others were replaced, and klieg lights were installed to light the way for modern theatergoers. One evening last week, as dusk settled over Attica's brown hills, the moon over the amphitheater competed with the electric lights. An audience filled the 3,000 seats for a performance of Mozart's Idomeneo, a rarely staged opera with an ancient Greek background...
...West. According to a Hungarian female Communist, for instance, the informer (donoschik) is "the mightiest and most honorable discharger of responsibility." But in Western Communist polemics, which passionately try to blacken the characters of all ex-Communists who have returned with news from the dark side of the moon, informer is a dirty word...
...favorite concubine, Ben Youssef was whisked off to exile, now lives in Madagascar in a hilltop hotel, where he daily complains of the cold. Uninspiring in office, Ben Youssef in exile has become a national martyr. Many simple Moroccans claim to see his face in the full moon...
...Tammany adopted its own constitution as a superpatriotic club for 100%-pure Americans. For its patron, the society chose a man whose American credentials could not be questioned: Tammany, sachem (pronounced say-chem) of the Lenni-Lenape (Delaware Indians), from whom legends glowed like beams from an August moon. Tammany (it was said) invented the canoe, discovered corn, beans, crabapples and tobacco (for use in destroying fleas). His most heroic feat was in wrestling the Evil Spirit for 50 days. Finally Tammany upended the Evil Spirit with a hip lock and tried to roll him into the Ohio River...