Word: supplicationes
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How does a coach get his team up for a game? He wheedles, he needles, and if all else fails, he sinks to his knees in solemn supplication. But when the game is Army-Navy-the bitterest of all rivalries-nobody needs to be keyed up. WE CAN, WE WILL...
Whether or not it chooses to be involved, it is to the U.S. that the peoples the world over turn in anger or supplication. When an African leader is murdered or a colonial power censured in the U.N., stones rain on U.S. embassies thousands of miles away. If floods sweep...
No Supplication. In the past, many black nationalists have disliked Luthuli almost as much as the white supremacists. Far too restrained for black extremists (even Verwoerd once acknowledged his moderation), Luthuli has deplored the Congo's premature independence, has acknowledged that "Africans cannot manage without the whites. We have...
So successful was his chieftainship that Luthuli entered politics wholeheartedly, became a member of the Native Representative Council, an advisory group supposed to acquaint the white government with the views of South Africa's blacks. Fed up with the bogus paternalism of this arrangement, Luthuli joined the African National...
Christ appears rapt and detached. His four tormentors gather around him in seeming viciousness. But a closer look reveals that his assailants are gripped by compassion. Perhaps some of their ornaments are meant to symbolize their incipient conversion from tormentors to believers. For instance, one of the upper figures wears...