Word: stilling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Greater Fervor. The "local control" granted individual orders and convents will probably mean far greater future variety among orders that still basically think of themselves as "contemplative." But most convents will probably now be more alert to the world around them, said Redemptoristine Sister Gertrude Wilkinson last week in Woodstock, Md., where representatives from 57 women's contemplative communities in the U.S. and Canada were meeting to discuss mutual problems. "We are becoming more conscious of the sufferings, problems and joys of the world," she explained. "If you know what you are praying for, you pray with greater fervor...
...Arab citadel. Michalowski dug into the citadel's foundations. Beneath its brick walls were the remains of what had once been a Christian cathedral, covering about 9,000 sq. ft. and intended for at least a thousand worshipers. Sustained by centuries of drifted sand, many walls were still standing. Most were decorated with splendid frescoes in a remarkable state of preservation...
...near-record level of some 9,700,000 units, but Detroit's share of that total has been dwindling. Sales of imported autos in the U.S. will exceed 1,000,000 units in the '69 model year, a 70% increase from 1966, and the trend is still running against domestic producers...
...eliminate is the cost of management," they like to say. Then the Willots set production and sales goals for the next six months: unless they are met, the company is usually closed. Even then, such by-products of the acquisition as sumptuous Paris headquarters and storage facilities may still make their investment worthwhile...
...months, and the film is paced to match. The only fire that the film stokes is under the bureaucratically callous procedures of British welfare medics, a group that seems to inspire a special nausea in Scriptwriter Margaret Drabble. Sandy Dennis has curtailed some of her facial acrobatics, but she still speaks some of her lines as if she were blowing them through her gums. Just to fill the new feminists' cup of joy, Sandy's baby is a girl...