Word: moravians
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Jesuit achievements were as often secular as spiritual. French Jesuit Jacques Marquette paddled down the Mississippi in the first European expedition to explore that river. Brother Jiri Kamel, a Moravian botanist at the Jesuits' College of Manila in the 17th century, gave Europe the camellia. A German mathematician and astronomer of the Society of Jesus, Christoph Klau, contributed to the Gregorian calendar and gave his Latinized name, Clavius, to a lunar crater that he discovered...
...affords them small pleasure. But they give themselves to different men in the doomed hope that they will find their identity at the point where all the lines of male force intersect. Even motherhood fails to bring Moravian women alive. Mirrors appear again and again, mocking the ladies who stand be fore them for being less real than their reflections. In Moravia's world, the furniture has more personality than the people who sit upon...
...finally, calls to accounting of the lives of people who have wept only in their dreams. "Somebody knocked at the door and a terrible voice cried 'Telegram!' " Thus ends a story ironically titled Paradise. Dante could draw another circle of hell from the slump of the Moravian woman - stifling her yawn, stifling her scream -as she shuffles to answer...
...addition, scores of liberal stage directors, actors and television workers have been jailed or put under house arrest. Eight actors from a theater in the Moravian town of Ostrava have been sentenced to prison terms ranging from three to 20 months for "crude deformation" of a play by Soviet Writer Valentin Katayev. Reportedly, the actors parodied parts of the play, which is a tribute to Russian gallantry during World...
...happen. Last month ABC televised the Reynolds-sponsored Winston-Salem Classic bowling tournament in North Carolina but, except for brief references at the beginning and end, avoided mentioning the name of the event or even where it was being held. Instead, Announcer Chris Schenkel extolled the charm of "the Moravian settlement" in the heart of "the rolling hills of North Carolina." Wallace Carroll, publisher of the Winston-Salem Journal & Sentinel, asked the Federal Communications Commission if his city was henceforth to be known as "Blip-Blip." William B. Ray, chief of the FCC's broadcast complaints division, jokingly replied...