Word: mortalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...winning entry in the short story division. It was followed by Gordon T. Milde '62's "Virgo Maria" and "The Mystery of Edward Markham" by Raymond M. Ellinwood '61, in that order. Higgins' first place entry in the poetry contest was entitled "Covering." "The Slipping Cycles Soothe the Mortal Fear" by Michael P. Hale '62 received the second prize. "The Death of the God of Moses" by Caria Marceau '63 took third...
...financier, is the grey eminence of these modest family fortunes. It has an airport -a villain once took off and fell from a plane whose flight originated in Monticello. It also has a sewer system known to those who saw two villains trapped in it for many a long mortal episode. It has a symphony orchestra-a villainess has set up an alibi at one performance. Only one human element, so essential to the life of man elsewhere in the U.S., is missing. No one in Edgeville-perhaps because it is designed for the serious or soap-buying...
Four characters, bound for Constantinople during the Fourth Crusade, constitute Mr. Cole's instruments in his tussle with the fates. The Bishop expresses a worldly skepticism; the Merchant an enthusiastic nihilism; the Baron is the only truly faithful mortal of the bunch; and the Angel, determined but confused, finally tumbles into the water instead of soaring into the Christian empyrean. Mr. Cole tries to make his characters palatable by casting a thin gauze of mockery over the entire apparatus. This technique, though well handled, fails to disguise the essential fatuity of his conception, for though the play is witty...
...Roman Catholic may not take Holy Communion unless he is free of mortal sin, which can only be obtained by confession and absolution from a priest, and no confession is valid unless the penitent sincerely intends never to repeat...
Continuing his description of this "new process of neo-colonialist methods," Kanza suggested that Moise Tshombe's soldiers had murdered Lumumba as soon as the arrested leader entered Katanga province. "It is impossible that Tshombe would allow his mortal enemy to escape," he said...