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Within the Anglican Communion, the Rome-admiring Oxford movement led, in mid-19th century, to a revival of both monks and nuns. The modern deaconess movement began with the Rev. Theodor Fliedner (1800-64), pastor of a Lutheran parish in the German town of Kaisers-werth. Inspired in part by the Roman Catholic order of nursing sisters established by France's St. Vincent de Paul, Fliedner in 1836 drew up plans for a Protestant Association of Christian Nursing; by 1849 he had brought Lutheran deaconesses to France, Britain...
...Earl of Rochester (d. 1680), their mild eroticism heavily disguised in battered olde type. Votaries of contemporary vulgarity got their kicks mainly in the titles of Eros' assortment of original stuff. An article on "Erotomania," for example, turned out to be a scholarly study of lovesickness by Psychologist Theodor (Listening with the Third Ear) Reik...
Since then, the weekly has been less a moralizer (although a sermon still appears in every issue) than an observer. To its pages have flocked Judaism's leading thinkers, among them (in 1896) the founder of modern Zionism, Theodor Herzl, who graciously handed the Chronicle an exclusive beat on his plan for a Jewish state. The Chronicle has had other scoops. It first brought to world attention detailed news of the 1881 pogroms in eastern Europe, and in 1903, despite czarist censorship, smuggled to England the first full accounts (with pictures) of a massacre at Kishenev in which...
...place of old-fashioned Zionism, Prinz called for a broad new U.S. grouping that would accept "the principle of Theodor Herzl, the founder of Zionism: 'We are a people, one people' "-whether in Israel or the U.S. This principle, said Prinz, "expresses a reality fully consistent with American democracy and our country's pluralistic society. It is a fact of life. It is how our neighbors feel about us. It is how we feel about ourselves...
...West Germany, Acheson's proposal met with sharp resistance. "Believe me," observed then-President Theodor Heuss, "at first it was not very easy to explain to the man in the street that it was his duty to do military service, after he had been told by propaganda that his previous military service had been bordering on criminal action." By this time, Franz Josef Strauss had observed that the man to get along with in German politics was Konrad Adenauer. When Adenauer, under Allied pressure, began talking up German rear mament, Strauss did too. It looked like a road...