Word: randwick
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...contrast there was a chiding note in the Pope's major address to some 200,000 worshipers at Sydney's Randwick Racecourse later in the week. Though he praised the "characteristic dynamism" of the "young country," the Pope questioned whether "pride in having built a prosperous Australia is enough for you." He warned of "the temptation to be satisfied when material needs are fulfilled ... to forget life's moral and spiritual dimension ... to fill its place with counterfeits, some of which lead in the end to contempt for man." One symptom of such contempt, the Pope seemed...