Word: pious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Faith and Flair. Combined with the deep faith that grew in the Middle Ages, the flair of the Renaissance for zestful living produced men whose deaths were proud as well as pious. Mounting the scaffold, Sir Thomas More joked: "I pray thee, Mr. Lieutenant, see me safe up, and for my coming down, let me shift for myself...
...start, Ricardo was a better sort of man than most of his fellow colonists. To these rough, tough Spaniards, many of whom had fought as conquistadors, brutal subjugation of the Indians seemed the obvious and only way to solve the vast problems of the huge, semitropical land. Pious Emperor Charles V, in faraway Spain, tried to end the feudal system that made the Indians worse than slaves (no one was responsible for their care). He wanted the Indians to be given patient, Christian, religious instruction. Planters and priests alike flatly defied the royal edict. When the Emperor authorized his emissary...
...with all traces of plot, Director Vincente Minnelli gets started with a saccharine bit of professional whimsy purporting to show how the late Flo Ziegfeld is getting along in heaven. (Director Minnelli" thinks he is doing all right, puts Ziegfeld on the same cloud level as Shakespeare.) Once this pious bow to the Master has been made, Follies slips into high gear, runs through one unrelated vaudeville act after another. Among the best...
Nicodemus ("he was the fellow who went to Christ in the middle of the night and wanted to know the lowdown. . . .") is the latest addition to the pious parade of current religious novels. Its appeal to readers is likely to lie less in its literary virtues than in its theme: the search for a valid religious faith by four despairing New Yorkers. They might be taken, together, as representing the common man. None of them had thought much about religion until World War II. Their contemporary torment is bluntly portrayed by Novelist Walworth with the forcefulness of the common woman...
...foot, 200-pound Foo Tak-yam last week visited Macao's Buddhist Kuan Yin Temple. His partly pious, partly sensual intention was to smoke opium and contemplate a successful, sinful life that began in peddling doughnuts and culminated in ruling the fabulous gambling industry of the Orient's Monte Carlo. Foo's celebration was under way when three Chinese entered the hilltop pagoda, pulled pistols from their long black gowns and whisked him away in a black sedan. Four days later his son received a preliminary ransom demand: one picul of gold (133⅓ lbs. in weight...