Word: saint
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...much persecution as acceptance that finally drove Christians to solitary life in the desert. When Constantine established Christianity as the Roman Empire's official religion, the faithful needed a new enemy to remain in tension with this world, and they discovered it in themselves. The martyr-saint who had been thrown to the lions was replaced by the ascetic-saint who was beset by private visions of demons. In the "barrenness and calm abstraction of the desert," man could come to grips with his true nature, writes Lacarrière. Life's superfluities dropped away; the moral choices...
...only seven officers and 118 men remained of 800, but they had taken 1,200 German prisoners. The Van Doos have since served in Italy in World War II, and with the U.N. forces in Korea. The regimental mascot is a goat named Baptiste, named after Jean-Baptiste, patron saint of French Canada, and their marching song is Vive la Canadienne. The Van Doos have been on a U.N. alert for the past three years as a "fire-brigade force ready to go anywhere," have been trained in such niceties as mob control, guerrilla operations and peace-patrol techniques...
...HOPE COMEDY SPECIAL (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Bob Hope stars as the editor of Bachelor Magazine, Eva Marie Saint as a schoolmarm bent on suppressing his publication. Color...
...ever seems to see the same Archbishop Makarios, President of Cyprus. Those who have been involved in diplomatic negotiations find him baffling, enigmatic, and often infuriating. The 500,000 Greek Cypriots of his island home revere him as a guileless saint, a selfless patriot, and a tenderhearted humanitarian. The 100,000 Turkish Cypriots, a minority terrified of racial extinction, view him as a bloody-handed monster and "the devil of duplicity incarnate...
Says Gevaert's President Henri Cappuyns: "I'm convinced that Common Market companies have to grow to Common Market size." Seeking Footholds. President de Gaulle encourages French firms to join, and helped unite glassmaking Saint-Gobain with Pechiney, one of France's largest chemical companies. Because of De Gaulle's policy, many French businessmen expect the eventual linkup of the two big privately owned French automakers, Citroën and Peugeot...