Word: prays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more than any of us . . . has reason to hate and despise the Nazi regime of Germany. And yet he sinks his personal feelings in recognizing not only the gravity of the present crisis but the compelling necessity it imposes of allowing Germany, we hope a new Germany, we pray a genuinely democratic Germany, to contribute to the defense of Western Europe...
...including Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre, Author Gheorghiu now admits that even despair is not without its choices. A fortnight ago, living and writing in a Europe that has ceased to be a concentration camp, he told an American correspondent: "As a European I cannot accept your civilization, but I pray morning, noon and night that, of the two alternatives facing the world today, yours will triumph...
After a ten-minute hospital visit with George Bernard Shaw, who is still mending, Virginia-born Lady Astor decided that his other friends were being too friendly, should pray for him but leave him alone. After all, said she: "His wife left him to me and I promised I'd always look after...
...bomb the Russians out of Europe, which would mean utter destruction of the ancient seats of Western civilization; 2) to mount an invasion of Europe, in the teeth of the Red army forces and their atomic bombs; 3) to let the Communists keep their hold on Western Europe-and pray...
Critics and most visitors praised the show, but a few found it bewildering. Looking at a red-lacquered altar from Japan, a woman from Germany exclaimed: "I just couldn't pray properly before such a thing!" Since a Japanese might have equal difficulty at a Gothic altar rail, the objection pretty well illustrated Monsignor Costantini's point: that native art may serve faith better than the alien kind...