Word: pelikan
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...early form of monastic life, but for the subsequent development of the West. Pope John Paul II, in an anniversary pronouncement, terms Augustine the "common father of our Christian civilization." Only a handful of thinkers have had equivalent influence over such a span of years. Yale Historian Jaroslav Pelikan observes in The Mystery of Continuity (University Press of Virginia, $14.95), a new work on the saint, that in each of the 16 centuries since his conversion, Augustine has been a "major intellectual, spiritual and cultural force." Even scholars who find the influence more bane than blessing grant the point...
Outsiders were quicker to defend the band's actions, than band members themselves. "It's the instituted tastelessness we all prize and laud in our Band," said Miriam R. Pelikan '89. "That's what we love them...