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...Penitentes of the southwestern U.S. began their famed, secretive Holy Week ceremonies, they added a new form of mortification to the lashes, thorns and vigils with which they traditionally atone for sin. The new humiliation: a lawsuit, the first in Penitente history. It threatened to bring some of the closest Penitente secrets out of the windowless adobe moradas ("purple houses") into the daylight of a civil court in Old Las Vegas...
...banned the cult as barbaric. It now enjoys clerical toleration. Weakened but persistent, the Penitentes retreated to remote villages, continued their Holy Week rites, but stood by with carbines to ward off nosy gringos who were baffled but fascinated by the twin Spanish traits: a passionate sense of sin and a flair for cruelty...
...Russian Church counted further gains. Izvestia now prints the hierarchy's pastoral literature, which is obligingly directed not against sin but against non-Communist politics. Several priests were chosen in the recent election to sit in the two Chambers of the Supreme Soviet...
...among its staff and George Grosz among its cartoonists; it had published the maiden work of Heinrich Mann and Poet Rainer Maria Rilke, as well as stories by De Maupassant, Chekhov, Strindberg and Hamsun. Under the Kaiser, its Cartoonist-Editor Heine had been imprisoned in a fortress for the sin of reflecting too faithfully "the physiognomy of the reigning class, [of] too ostentatious Government officials . . . officers . . . Junkers [and] the subservient spirit of the small bourgeoisie." In this tradition, Simplicissimus also faithfully recorded each new step in Adolf Hitler's rise to power-a rise which Simpl found too ludicrous...
They were married after Pearl Harbor, because Ernst was German and Peggy "did not like the idea of living in sin with an enemy alien. . . . Max could not understand English and when he was asked to wed me, he understood wet, which he repeated...