Word: paule
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mark of Pope John Paul II's charismatic style is his ability to illuminate human aspirations with a telling phrase or a symbolic gesture. For several hours last week, an unprecedented event put together under his auspices dramatized one of the greatest of all aspirations. At his invitation, leaders from the religions of the earth gathered under glowering skies in the tranquil medieval Italian town of Assisi and, with quiet dignity, uttered prayers for world peace...
...broad assemblage was set in Assisi in honor of St. Francis, the simple Umbrian friar whose life exemplifies humanity's quest for peace. "If the world is going to continue, and men and women are to survive in it," John Paul declared in English, "it cannot do without prayer. This is the permanent lesson of Assisi. It is the lesson of St. Francis, who embodied an attractive ideal...
...group also raised suspicions among some Christians that Assisi represented a heretical step toward syncretism, the amalgamation of various conflicting religions. For this reason, U.S. Fundamentalist Gadfly Carl McIntire branded the meeting the "greatest single abomination in church history," and Catholic extremists in France passed out leaflets consigning John Paul to hell...
EDITOR'S CHOICE FICTION O-ZONE, Paul Theroux -- PECKHAM'S MARBLES, Peter De Vries -- PERFUME, Patrick Suskind -- THE PRINCE OF TIDES, Pat Conroy -- A SUMMONS TO MEMPHIS, Peter Taylor -- A TASTE FOR DEATH, P.D. James NONFICTION EISENHOWER: AT WAR 1943-1945, David Eisenhower -- GOING SOLO, Roald Dahl MY FATHER, MY SON, Admiral Elmo Zumwalt Jr. and Lieut. Elmo Zumwalt...
...Republicans lose control of the Senate, President Reagan will not be a "lame duck. He'll be a dead duck." That was the pre-election assessment offered on ABC's Nightline by the President's long-time friend and ally, Sen. Paul Laxalt (R-Nev.) Even Laxalt's hand-picked intended successor for his Senate seat, however, fell victim to the Democratic surge that ended six years of Republican reign in the United States Senate...