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...work of a pastor deeply concerned by the erosion of moral values. Throughout his life, Paul was an ascetic-a dedicated worker who pushed his frail body regularly through a schedule that lasted from 6 in the morning until midnight, with little more than his meals and a siesta to break the day. Abstinent himself, he worried much and cautioned often about society's move away from traditional family patterns and its increasing self-indulgence. He warned that the rise of militant feminism risked "either masculinizing or depersonalizing women" and condemned "the most cunning aggression of conscience through pornography...
...Rapita. Most of the 600 French, West German and Belgian tourists at Los Alfaques (the Sandbars) campsite were eating a leisurely sitdown lunch in front of their tents and trailers or at picnic tables under the shade of palm and cypress trees. Others were dozing off for a vacation siesta. Groups of children romped among the sunbathers basking on the narrow beach...
Talent-wise, the squad is much improved from what was virtually a senior field trip last year. Elmblad says his "two stalwarts" are pitcher Caryn Curry, who is taking a spring siesta from her IAB hoop stardom in the winter, and freshman shortstop Betty Ippolito...
...glass of wine, a siesta-and a rare day off from the easel. Joan Miró decided to take it easy on his 85th birthday. "The older I get, the more I do," he said. Laboring seven hours a day in his hilltop studio on the Spanish island of Majorca, he finishes one or two works a week and has also completed a tapestry for the National Gallery of Art in Washington. An especially exciting prospect is an upcoming retrospective exhibition in Madrid, to be opened by King Juan Carlos. It will mean that after 40 years of Franco...
Once in the lead Harvard took a brief siesta from aggressive play, which amounted to the next 19 minutes, and had it not been for the heroics of John Hyne in the Crimson cage, overtime would never have come...