Word: poorness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mindszenty, the son of a poor peasant, had risen to the highest church office in his land. Some of Hungary's peasants, who used to flock together in crowds of 45,000 to hear him speak, have seen him, even in recent years, working the land at his mother's five-acre farm in the village of Mindzent. Hungarians, who were now asked to believe that Mindszenty was an anti-Semite, remembered his courageous wartime sermons attacking Naziism, in which he declared that "antiSemitism and the proceedings against the Jews are the shame of civilization...
...would seem to the poor unacquainted reader of the CRIMSON that the various pseudo-politicos concerned with the Fisher-HYRC case have so involved themselves in charges and counter-charges that the salient point of importance in the affair has become obscured. The members of this University who voted for Mr. Fisher and who vote for other campaigners expect themselves to be represented by those who seek their vote. If Mr. Fisher and the members of the YRC planning committee had been less concerned with their politics, whatever politics 19-year-old sophomores can be sure of in their...
...slender Emperor believed, as an old Etonian should, in the classics in the classroom and pluck on the playing fields. During World War II he stood firm against parents who suggested that Eton should be moved to a place more remote from enemy bombs. If London's poor could not move from London, said the Emperor, Etonians would not move from Eton. Later, some bombs did fall, barely missing a library full of boys. But Eton did not move...
...paintings in Portinari's show in São Paulo told of more enduring evils. Many were staring close-ups of the poor-which he sells for fat sums to the rich. Lately Portinari has abandoned the sad grey plains and squat, nubble-knuckled figures of his earlier years in favor of a tropically brilliant, anatomically believable world that blazes with sunshiny yellows and royal-purple shadows. But though he has changed the colors of his palette, he has not changed his political colors. The clear new light in Portinari's newest murals-including that of the Tooth...
...letter of the law. All of a sudden the judge gets more of his own kind of medicine than he can swallow. His wife (Florence Eldridge), he learns, has an obscure, incurable and agonizing disease. Of course neither he nor his old friend the doctor dreams of telling the poor woman what she's in for, but ultimately, in pity and anguish, the judge determines to kill...