Word: rival
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Councils of the Renaissance delayed, but could not prevent, the division of Christendom that came with the Reformation. The Council of Constance ended the Great Schism of the West, a disastrous 40-year era in which the church had three rival claimants for the papacy. This council, like the forthcoming Vatican Council, was convened by a Pope John XXIII; since historians now agree that he had not been validly elected, the present Pope was free to use the same numerals. The Council of Trent (1545-63) was a belated effort to reform the corrupt Catholic practices-notably, the traffic...
...Theotokos, the Mother of God. Chalcedon condemned the Monophysites, for denying that Christ united a divine and a human nature in one person. The councils may have brought out the best in Christian teaching-but they sometimes brought out the worst in the men who attended them: at Ephesus, rival groups of bishops excommunicated one another...
...addition to its specific virtues as a solid and much needed piece of work in nineteenth century American history, Professor Taylor's book can be recommended for the example it gives of just such an attempt at patient and thorough examination. In their own day, the rival conceptions of the shrewd, hard-trading, thick-skinned Yankee, and the landed, generous, sensitive Cavalier were much more than the propaganda cliches to which they have declined since; for, as Professor Taylor shows, it is the desperation with which educated Southerners sought to make this vocabulary come alive, and embody the South whose...
...blocks to the south, there was a different kind of opening with its own brand of superlative: the tallest hotel in the world. The Americana zooms up 50 stories in a kind of crescent on Seventh Avenue between 52nd and 53rd streets. Like its rival, the 46-story still-unfinished New York Hilton a block away, the Americana will help remedy Manhattan's constant shortage of public rooms by supplying them in all sizes and shapes. There are 41 of them in all, seating a total of 11,290 diners (the seven kitchens occupy nearly an acre and contain...
...uniformly marvelous, a perfect parody of a small-town smoothie. And Director Germi, who at 44 is one of the least known but one of the most talented (The Straw Man, An Ugly Mess) of the major Italian directors, shows a flair for deadly fun that few of his rivals can rival. Sicilian customs, Latin lovers, political priests, legal shenanigans-his targets are whale-sized and he sinks a keen lampoon...