Word: pious
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...trial both men confess, Rab as a last pious rite to the party, Father Janos to save his friends and fellow priests from further torture. But before he mounts the gallows, Rab, feeling "an absolute void within me,"' kneels before Father Janos and asks "to die in the peace of faith." Author Kovács sometimes mashes a thumb with his literary chisel, but when he hits the historic mark, the apocalyptic tableau of hammer and sickle v. the cross stands out in bold, fresh relief...
...clear advantage is with the Fortunate Altruist according to Director Sorokin. The perfect example is given in the life history of Serafim of Sarov: "Born in the pious family of a building contractor, Serafim early showed his religiosity by playing around a church which his mother had built..." His life ended appropriately at the age of 74 as he died quietly in the keeping position of prayer...
...teachers' manuals for grades 1, 4 and 7. About 2,000 parishes have already sent in pre-publication orders. Planning for the series got under way nine years ago when the Episcopal Church decided that the Sunday-school curriculum in too many parishes was little better than a pious device for providing some peace and quiet around the house on Sunday morning. After the problem was turned over to the church's Department of Christian Education, its current director, the Rev. David R. Hunter, launched a program of meticulous pretesting. Hundreds of weekend "Parish-Life Conferences" were held...
BRITAIN'S general election comes up May 26, and the Conservative and Labor (Socialist) Parties published their platform this week. Sir Anthony Eden's Conservatives utter a set of pious bromides about their love of peace and determination to avoid war. To that end, they propose to seek early talks with the Kremlin mob on easing world tensions. Nothing is said about the Kremlin mob showing evidence of good faith before such talks are held. The Conservatives hint broadly that they'll heed the Socialists' demand to cut the conscription period from the present two years...
...Darrow, Paul Muni snorts and paces and glares, lifts indignant agnostic eyes toward heaven, heaps anti-Biblical fire and brimstone on the pious, and slowly reduces Bryan to a mental pulp and physical exhaustion. A wonderful example of the high hamming that is equally the forte of skilled actors and skilled trial lawyers, it makes Muni and Darrow indistinguishable. Ed Begley's Bryan is excellent also, though this is a more benign figure at the trial than the Bryan who, as H. L. Mencken watched him, "writhed and tossed in a very fury of malignancy," and not quite...