Word: pontificale
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By the mid-19th century, the aphorism had become a favorite of the English. Oscar Wilde exposed the flip side of bromides: "Punctuality is the thief of time"; "Old enough to know worse." But he could be as pontifical as the next prince: "A thing is not necessarily true because...
The Pope traveled next to the monastery of Niepokalanow, 30 miles west of Warsaw, to pay tribute to Poland's newest saint: Father Maximilian Kolbe. While a prisoner in Auschwitz in 1941, Kolbe volunteered to die in the place of another Polish inmate who had a wife and children...
Bok also differs from Giamatti in his low-key approach toward athletics. Although he is not as vocal as Giamatti, administrators and coaches say Bok actively participates in a wide variety of the issues. He works behind the scenes by style, explains athletic director John P. Reardon '60, "rather than...
. . . "The Cultural Situation of the American Writer." Bech is not, as a rule, well received. South American students noisily circulate leaflets to the audience during one of his talks. Bech glimpses a copy: "It showed himself, huge-nosed, as a vulture with striped and starred wings, perched on a tangle...
The son of impoverished Lithuanian parents who immigrated to Cicero, Ill., Archbishop Marcinkus had enjoyed a steady rise in the Vatican hierarchy before the scandal broke. After taking a degree in canon law at Rome's Pontifical Gregorian University, Marcinkus joined the Vatican's State Secretariat in 1952...