Word: priests
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...belatedly announced that two months ago the government had nipped in the bud a plot to take over the country. The plot bore the preposterous name of "Operation Cocktail," and the people behind it, said the minister, included all classes and were all "most confused." Among those arrested: a priest, nine army officers, 22 civilians. Behind this threat to the 27-year dictatorship of Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, police also saw the features of flamboyant General Humberto Delgado, who in last year's election got a surprising 23% of the votes, even with Salazar's men counting...
...behind the girls is Kent's rector and headmaster, the Rev. John 0. Patterson, a 51-year-old, Nevada-born Episcopal priest who began as an M.I.T.-trained architect, spent 15 years in Midwest parishes before coming to Kent in 1949. No monastic-he has a wife and four children-Father Patterson has a hard-headed reason for backing the girls' annex. In today's world, says he, "men have to work effectively with women. Women are people as much...
...office of "Most Holy Father and Patriarch of the great city of Alexandria and of all Egypt . . . and of all the places where St. Mark preached." The choice: Mina al Baramoussi, born Azer Yousef Atta, sometime clerk at Thomas Cook's travel bureau and a renowned priest known to his followers as "The Solitary...
...heroine is a dim-witted old peasant woman (Annie Rosar), who works as a cook in a wealthy Austrian family, saves all her pennies to educate her nephew (Kurt Meisel) for the priesthood. Actually the cook does not care a fig for the nephew. All she wants is a priest who will pray for her soul and make sure she gets to heaven...
After 20 years and many thousands of kronen, the heroine is flabbergasted to discover that her nephew never became a priest at all. He makes his living as a smalltime photographer and petty swindler, and he curses the old cook for ruining his life by sending him to a seminary. Shattered, the old woman makes a pilgrimage to Rome to do penance for what Werfel conceived as the sin of the century: the attempt to substitute power for love, money for meaning...