Word: saint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...giving up, a giving away of one's self or one's worldly goods in imitation of Christ. The matter grew more complex under the Protestant ethic, when gifts were bestowed as a reward or incentive for good behavior. St. Nick was long depicted as a scrawny saint who Carried presents in one hand and birch rods in the other. But the art of giving grows most difficult in this permanent holiday age of affluence, when, in the words of Poet Howard Nemerov, Santa Claus himself is an "overstuffed confidence man who climbs at night down chimneys, into...
...Although I am a happily married family man I long ago gave my wife fair warning that there was Another Woman-Julia Child. We were both delighted to see our Other Woman gracing your cover. In fact, we plan to laminate your likeness of our patron saint of fine cuisine and hang it permanently in our kitchen, where Mrs. Child can afford us not only inspiration but, occasionally, solace for our fluffs...
...Turnvereins have disbanded, and the Germans who made their start in south St. Louis have prospered and dispersed. In Kansas City, the young Italians no longer set the old St. Joseph's table for the poor on March 19, and it is ten years since the last Saint's Day parade. As the national director of the Italian American Society says wistfully: "Within 20 years, there will be no need for Italian organizations." In 1914, there were an estimated 1,300 foreign-language newspapers and periodicals; today there are fewer than...
...Paris when Gustave Eiffel built his 984-ft. tower for the Paris Exposition in 1889. There was still more when he did not tear it down afterward. Now the graceful Parisian skyline will be altered even more drastically-by a proposed 55-story office building that will loom over Saint-Germain-des-Prés like an enormous elliptical cigarette case, dwarf Notre Dame and top out 20 feet higher than the lofty tip of Sacré-Coeur...
They say that St. Genesius, the patron saint of the theatre, was a Roman burlesque comic. He must have been watching over Forum--happy as a saint, that the proceeds will go to Radcliffe's charitable Grant-in-Aid; and pleased, as a pro, that this production is such a funny thing...