Word: saint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Georgetown University School of Nursing, where a four-year course leads to a bachelor of science degree. If accepted, she can live at home, which will be fine with her father, the Secret Service, and her best beau Paul Betz, 20, a pre-med at close-enough Mount Saint Mary's College in Maryland...
Baeck, who died nine years ago, is revered as a saint of modern Judaism, and as one of the last towering figures of the German Jewish renaissance that produced such men as Freud, Einstein, Kafka and Martin Buber. Born in Prussia, he studied philosophy at the University of Berlin, and as a rabbi in Silesia, Dusseldorf and Berlin emerged as one of Germany's great articulators of Reform Judaism. When Protestant Theologian Adolf von Harnack declared Judaism to be a spiritually inferior faith in his The Essence of Christianity, Baeck replied with The Essence of Judaism. Baeck defended Judaism...
...teaching at Williams College. A steady scholar who can and has separated many a Rembrandt from a replica by its brush work, Rosenberg is called "the expert's expert" by Fogg Director John Coolidge. His students are the print experts of the U.S., and he has been affectionately called "Saint Jakob." His final exhibition of 166 modern prints (see color pages), currently on view at Harvard, is not only a tribute to a century of graphic revolution, but also the result of deadeye decision...
...inner government circles even though he is not a Gaullist. This position gives him a rare detachment: he is able to write knowledgeably about De Gaulle while avoiding both the admiration of a follower and the jealousy of an opponent. The King and His Court resembles the Duc de Saint-Simson's colorful Memoirs about life with Louis XIV, full of sympathy and gossip, yet it retains the ironical view-point of a journalist somewhat skeptical about De Gaulle's lofty designs...
John Toye, as Jack Dean, fails for lack of warmth. Admittedly, he is a very reserved man, spoken of as a saint, but if his final resolution to stand by his half-mad wife is to be believable, he must seem thoroughly sympathetic as well. Occasionally Toye managed fits of humanity, but they only seemed to contradict his general callousness...