Word: orthodox
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...popularize the translations into the vernacular; while at the same time influential bishops are recommending to the faithful the reading of the Bible. . . . The intended objective, however, is not to draw nearer to other confessions, but to render the Roman liturgy more appealing and efficacious. In Paris, the Holy Orthodox Liturgy is said in French in two churches, and an Orthodox branch of the Benedictines was formed during the war with a liturgy likewise translated into French...
...ones: Max Ernst, Hans Arp, Yves Tanguy, Joan Miro, Man Ray. Many admirers of early Surrealism (such as Communist Louis Aragon) felt that the daft old horse had lost its kick. Notably absent: Giorgio de Chirico, now a noisy detractor of the movement, and Salvador Dali, unfrocked by orthodox Surrealists for being too frivolous and too commercial...
Daughter, Daughter. She had red hair and green eyes, and a camellia-white complexion. They called her Magda, a good name for a voluptuous beauty of her type. She joined the Greek Orthodox Church, though her mother was a Roman Catholic Viennese dancer and her father a Jewish merchant (variously described as a moneylender, druggist, innkeeper, garageman). The story goes that Papa Lupescu was very fond of Carol, and liked to refer to him and Magda as "my children." Once, when Carol's brother Nicolas recklessly proposed to marry a commoner, Papa Lupescu chided Magda: "Daughter, daughter! What kind...
...tomb, you automatically take your hat off. . . . You have been visiting a shrine. . . . Communism is now a fully fledged religion which claims to be of universal application. . . . It has a tremendous literature of commentary and exegesis, and all the usual saints and martyrs and heresies. . . . It is rigidly orthodox and highly fanatical. . . . And this . . . religion has really got a grip on the world...
This law outraged Canada's orthodox financiers, and the Liberal Government in Ottawa asked the Supreme Court of Canada whether the legislation was constitutional. Last week, by a 4-to-1 vote, the court ruled that Saskatchewan had trespassed on the Dominion's preserve-under the British North America Act, the right to regulate interest...