Word: saints
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...different approach. Firmly backed by the president, the Very Rev. John R. Cortelyou, a noted comparative endocrinologist and the first natural scientist to head the school, Kreyche's department has just introduced four new philosophy courses that study Aquinas as a man to be boldly challenged, not a saint to be blindly followed...
Penta, one of seven Dominicans who teach philosophy and who have a special interest in St. Thomas as a patron saint of their order. Warned another of De Paul's Dominicans: "We are skirting canon law." However, the five laymen in the department, joined by some other priests, backed Kreyche's experimental curriculum...
...four-story Rome palazzo that will become Italy's first Lebanese bank, and early next year will move into a 22-story headquarters now going up in Beirut. Another former moneychanger, George Jabbour, 37, set up shop next to the telephone at the bar of the Hotel Saint-Georges during Lebanon's 1958 civil war, made so much from currency gyrations that he now heads his own Bank of Lebanon and the Middle East...
...seemed detached and imperturbable as he sat at the Security Council's high table, mediating between East and West. He often exasperated the committed men of both sides. But he became a kind of special saint for the uncommitted, the uncertain, the uneasy, who only hoped for the best without knowing just what the best was, who believed that sheer good will could somehow resolve all the world's conflicts. His very immobility was reassuring; at times he seemed the still point of the turning world. Not even Dag Hammarskjöld's close friends knew that...
...years since Sartre wrote his taut and masterful early dramas, his works have become increasingly lengthy, turgid, posturing and difficult. The climax was perhaps Saint Genet, where he tortured a simple preface to another man's work into a labored and debatable treatise of 578 pages-three-quarters the length of the volumes he was introducing. But in his autobiography, Sartre simplifies and shortens. The writing is austere, crisp, even epigrammatic. The result is a warm, albeit desperately sad, account of his childhood and early teens. And far more than most autobiographies, this is an inward-turning book, cutting...