Word: sainte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Saint Joan. A middling production of what is perhaps Shaw's greatest play (TIME...
Henry Adams, in his eloquent book about Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres, called these windows "the most splendid color decoration the world ever saw, since no other material, neither silk nor gold, and no opaque color laid on with a brush, can compare with translucent glass, and even the Ravenna mosaics or Chinese porcelains are darkness beside them...
...Liberty Street Gospel Church of Lapeer, Mich. (pop. 6,000) seats 280 people, but 400 crowded in one night last week. They stood six-deep at the back to pay a tribute to the Rev. Frank S. Hemingway-a man one Lapeerite called "as near a saint as anyone can be without being...
Sanctity. "Sanctity consists not of pleasant visions but of faithful discipline. To hold that we are religious only when we feel religious is a most depressing heresy. We may safely wager that the saint never feels like a saint. To make the efficacy of prayer and goodness dependent upon 'feeling' is akin to a Napoleon on the eve of battle calling it all off till he feels more heroic. In His ninth hour, Jesus did not feel the Father near-'My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?'-but faith and obedience did not fail...
...present, Christmas here is confined to the concerts, carol singing, Christmas plays at the Houses, a number of trees in the House courtyards and the annual reading of "A Visit from Saint Nicholas" at the Union. The last was inaugurated in the early 1900's by Charles T. Copeland '82, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, emeritus...