Word: polycarp
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...only are theologians perplexed by the issue, but scientists themselves are divided. Last week the clergymen opposing human engineering were joined by seven scientists, including Nobel Laureates Polycarp Kusch and George Wald. A bio chemist, Wald echoes the fears of many clergymen about altering human genes when he asks, "Who is going to set those specifications...
...begin with the fact that everything is awful. That any two people are mismatched, that nothing will work," says Tom Waltz, Stanley's son, who has been invited to escape the limitations of his fate at Polycarp, an educational institution in Slow Rapids, Ind., where the Waltz grass dies every summer. He is more grammatical than his old man, but that is all. He too is a prisoner, trapped by circumstance and surrounded by the De Vries wit, which leaks out all over. And why does it? Because, in extremis, scalped and trussed, there is only one thing...
...most modern Christians, the days of the Early Church are vague and far-off times for scholars to quibble over. But no era in the church's history was more exciting. The early leaders, with their strange-sounding names-Polycarp, Athenagoras, Asterius of Amasea-were spiritual pioneers whose adventures in the faith built a legacy for all Christians...
...since St. Polycarp of Smyrna came to see Pope Anicetus in the 2nd Century had Rome seen such a Mass. But more significant than the frequent bell-tinkling and strange, high, polyphonic chanting of the Armenian Rite were the Holy Father's words in a public speech next day: "In designating the eminent Patriarch of the Armenians to celebrate yesterday's Pontifical, we have desired to stress the solicitude and love which the occupants of Peter's chair have throughout the centuries shown Armenia and her people. . . . Be firm in your faith; do not allow yourselves...
Augustus joined the cavalry, was badly wounded in his first skirmish, fell in love with his hospital nurse and married her. Polycarp Vaiden and A. Gray Lacefield came through the war unhurt. But before they got home again the Yankees had been there and had not left much to come back to. When the reconstructed Negroes got uppity Miltiades organized and headed the local Ku Klux Klan. Then Polycarp was shot from ambush. Marcia had little excuse left for not marrying A. Gray, but at the last minute was won by Jerry Catlin, a Southerner who had fought...