Word: saint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...enough for Guevara, who preaches: "We have in this country a minority in a magnificent situation and a majority in a desperate situation. And Plaza's government, it's for the minority, no?" He calls his followers indefensos, "the defenseless ones." They call him "the saint." The indefensos took it as a good omen that Guevara's electoral triumph last week occurred on the day he became 40, minimum age to run for the presidency in next June's election...
...Century Flemish memoir of one Jan van Ster-teen, an atheistic painter who, toward the year 1595, met up in London with a traveling mountebank named Jonathan William Anthony Oldhorse. Oldhorse, a born leader, forms a blood-brotherhood between the Fleming, a gay young Frenchman named Marie-Jean-Pierre Saint-Benoist, and a pensive Jew named Jacob Keepjeke. They all agree to obey Old-horse to the death, and soon...
...Sterteen falls in love with a Spanish girl so proud that she will marry him and bear his child, but will not lie and say that she loves him. At the end, she goes to her death for a brigand whose only caress was administered with a horsewhip. Saint-Benoist is caught up in a struggle to save his soul. Oldhorse, the man with a vision, drives on to his goal (the establishment of a humanitarian-and profitable-state) with the world-weariness of the true devotee. "I'm tired, Jan," he once murmurs, "tired to death...
Each morning at six o'clock, the call of "Bendicamus Domino" resounds through the halls of the Monastery of Saint Mary and Saint John, waking the Episcopal monks to their duties. The Monastery, located next to the MTA car barn on Memorial Drive, is the Mother House of the American Congregation of the Society of Saint John the Evangelist; a society which originated in Oxford, England in 1865 under the direction of Father Richard Meux Benson...
...When a curious kind of madness broke out in the little French town of Pont-Saint-Esprit, doctors stamped it as a medieval disease known as "St. Anthony's Fire," caused...