Word: prior
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...somber ceremony witnessed by Brother Ted, 31, and Sister Jean, 35, New York International Airport (Idlewild) was officially rededicated as John F. Kennedy International Airport. There were a few brief speeches and a patter of applause as the 3-ft.-high J.F.K. initials were unveiled prior to being installed atop the International Arrivals Building. It was a "fitting memorial," allowed former President Harry Truman, 79, two days later. But even so, continued H.S.T., Americans in their grief are in too much of a hurry to rename everything, "including the pups and cats. After things settle down...
...Monsignor Fermoyle wins singlehanded a battle with small-town bigots after getting himself horsewhipped by the Klan. Years later, after he has reached his episcopacy, Fermoyle takes on Adolf Hitler: he returns to Vienna to talk sense to Cardinal Innitzer (the real-life churchman who welcomed Naziism to Austria prior to the Anschluss of 1938). The episode ends ludicrously: as Brownshirts riot around Innitzer's palace, Soprano Wilma Lipp and 200 members of the Wiener Jeunesse Choir huddle primly in the plaza, singing Mozart's Alleluia without skipping a half note. Will miracles never cease...
...book, Tillich tries to use his ideas to settle the "obsolete conflict between reason-determined morals (man-centered) and faith-determined morals (God-centered)." Not surprisingly, faith triumphs over reason by subsuming it. In man, faith is prior to reason, Tillich says. It follows that Tillich can dispose of the two major types of reason-determined morals. First, there is "graceless formalism," which is compulsive adherence to religious doctrine. Like Luther, Tillich feels that formal laws separate man from...
...long dialogue sections he retained from the play's late acts, particularly the soliloquies which on stage tend to be unbearably static. This vividness and motion more than compensate for the confused nature of the early scenes, in which Welles's attempt to speed through preliminaries makes a prior reading of the play advisable...
...Negro Episcopalian, I am glad that the Lovett situation in Atlanta (about which I had some prior knowledge) has been brought to the attention of the nation. It is high time the hierarchy, which governs our respective dioceses, gets off the fence once...