Word: penitente
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With that decision, Henriette and her friends change from uncaged animals to human beings with purpose and pride. With two girls who were her fellow prisoners and a young Dutch seaman, she starts out on the long journey to her home in The Netherlands. The book becomes a picaresque adventure...
Jean-Baptiste decides he would rather be wrong than self-righteous. He dabbles in sensuality ("A single sentence will suffice for modern man: he fornicated and read the papers"). But this leads to remorse, especially when one girl whom he desires jumps into the river and he does nothing to...
This year Radio Evangelist Michaux. who calls his sect the "Gospel Spreading Association," produced five Spectaculars. At the first (Memories of the Cross), the devil was buried in a glass casket with full funeral rites. At the second (The Heart of My Lord Was Broken for Me), an electrical bleeding...
Legal Headache. When the Dodgers took the field, Pitcher Don Newcombe, just a little bigger than life (6 ft. 4 in., 225 Ibs.), shambled to the mound. The week before, Don had decided that he was just too good to pitch batting practice. Smokey, who had handled Newcombe before, in...
Although this represented Paul Butler's first sharp departure from the line of Former Chairman Mitchell, he was still out of tune with Allan Shivers. When Shivers was asked whether he could support Stevenson in 1956, the Texan showed that he was anything but penitent. Stevenson, he said, would...