Word: sacredness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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By early 1960 Mao had clearly given up hope of persuading Khrushchev to change his flexible cold war policy, and began an all-out Chinese offensive designed to topple Khrushchev from power. It was also the start of an endless argument about whether authority for Moscow's "peaceful coexistence...
"The Peak of God." A green, mountainous finger pointed eastward into Homer's Aegean, the Athos peninsula was thought sacred long before Jesus came on earth. Aeschylus refers to Athos as "the peak of God," and Christians quite happily modified the belief in their own way. According to one...
The Sacred Purple. One of John XXIII's first acts as Pope was to call a consistory-and the name of Giovanni Montini led the list of new cardinals. A disciple of Pius, Montini became a close friend of John's-in France they called him "Le Dauphin...
Ironically, for all his diplomatic savvy, Montini was also responsible last fall for one of the classic blunders in modern church history. Acting on bad advice from Milanese students, he sent a wire to Dictator Francisco Franco, protesting a death sentence that had been meted out to a young Spaniard...
Time was when some of the gamiest reading this side of Paris was to be found in the instructive pages of the marriage manuals. "In this little book," says the preface to the 1939 edition of Married Love, "Dr. Marie Slopes deals with subjects which are generally regarded as too...