Word: parise
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Founded four decades ago as a "musical bridge between East and West," Takarazuka (named after its home town in Japan) presents thinly disguised Broadway and Paris turns, together with jazzed-up versions of Japanese fairy and folk tales, all held together in a sukiyaki-like mixture of muted native music...
To win back France's Communist-led, largely unchurched working classes, the French cardinals in 1943 founded the "Mission to Paris." Specially trained young priests began to take jobs in factories to pursue their evangelizing mission more effectively; wearing overalls, they held fulltime jobs, said Mass and performed other...
De-Christianized? Last spring Maurice Cardinal Feltin, Archbishop of Paris, asked permission from the Vatican's Holy Office to revive the worker-priests under strict controls. Back from Rome came a firm no. Last week, as French cardinals and bishops met in Paris to discuss the situation, the Holy...
There were signs that the French hierarchy, traditionally jealous of its independence from Rome, was disgruntled by the sharpness of the Vatican's order. "Rome could tell us to stand on our heads and of course we would," said one church official in Paris, "but even upside down we...
Breakproof Glass. A new line of glassware that is virtually breakproof-and if it does break, leaves no jagged edges-was put on sale by St.-Gobain of Paris at Gimbel Bros. The glass can be transferred from a subzero freezer to a 600° F. oven without cracking. Price...