Word: scottishly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...semi-archaic Scottish word, reaver, meaning plunderer, raider, marauder...
Many of Judy's songs are Scottish, English or Irish, and some of them-The Golden Apples of the Sun, The Bonnie Ship the Diamond-are not often heard in folk circles. If Baez has a tragic sense and Dobson an antic one, Collins has an intense, Holy Roller quality. Colorado-born, she is married to a teacher of English at the University of Connecticut...
...took only five minutes for Scottish Architect Basil Spence, standing in the bombed-out shell of Coventry Cathedral one day in 1950, to conceive a design for the new cathedral. "I knew my task was to design a new building linked to the old which would stand for the triumph of the Resurrection," Sir Basil wrote later. "The ruins were the Old Testament, the new cathedral would be the New. The idea of the design was planted in my mind and never changed." Last week Architect Spence stood again at Coventry, this time to watch the ceremonial consecration...
Last week, with deft help from Pope John XXIII, it was scaled. Dr. Archibald Craig, Moderator of the Scottish Kirk, stepped over the Pope's threshold and visited him within the Vatican's walls...
Auld Kirk. Since its beginnings with the Scottish Reformation in 1560, the Kirk has held fast to a Calvinism that in one sense is more rigid than John Calvin's. Calvin's influence on John Knox, the great Scottish reformer, made him an architect of the Kirk's bulwark against the papacy. In 1647, Scottish delegates to the Westminster Assembly wed their church to a Confession of Faith that described the Pope as "AntiChrist, man of sin, son of perdition." The Archbishop of Canterbury's 1960 visit to Pope John tested the ground for all Protestantism...