Word: trappists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Five Trappists. Over the monotonous objections of Shepilov. the majority appointed a five-nation committee (Australia, Sweden, Ethiopia. Iran, the U.S.) to take its proposals to Nasser. Thus the conference ended on a note of suspense. Australia's Prime Minister Robert Menzies was named chairman. Deputy Undersecretary of State Loy Henderson the U.S. representative. Menzies, who earlier in the week had been riding to conference sessions with a TV set in his limousine so as not to miss a minute of the Australia v. England cricket matches, pronounced his committee's task so delicate that "we should...
...later, when his old outfit, the 4th Hussars, ran into sticky fighting against the Arabs. Foucauld tossed Mistress Mimi aside, wangled reinstatement, and made a gallant name for himself. He never went back to his foie gras and champagne. Instead, at 29. he returned to the church, joined the Trappists, then decided that the Trappist austerities were not strict enough. He went to Nazareth where he became a handyman, living in harsh poverty, with fasting and prayer. His superiors were soon treating him as a living saint. Ordained (1901), Foucauld went to live among the Arabs of North Africa...
ALFRED MANESSIER, 43, sometime architect from Picardy, an abstractionist (he calls his painting "supra-rational") who uses colors that glow like Rouault's. Like Rouault, Manessier underwent a religious crisis which he resolved in a brief retreat to a Trappist monastery. Manessier's subsequent work has often had a kind of vaulted Gothic mysticism...
...Must Fight." No man in Indo-China was more an uncontested ruler than Bishop Tu, a French-schooled Vietnamese and a onetime Trappist monk. His flock was half a million farmers who lived in the rich Tonkin coastal area. Le Huu Tu dotted his little theocracy with schools, seminaries, orphanages, and cathedral-sized churches. He walked a tricky tightrope of diplomacy, between the Viet Minh revolutionists, the Vietnamese loyalists and the French colonials...
...national hero after the 1918 armistice, Fonck turned to civilian flying, narrowly escaped death when his S-35 crashed on the take-off of a 1926 transatlantic attempt. Back in uniform in 1939, Colonel Fonck led a fighter group until France fell, in 1942 disguised himself as a Trappist monk and helped organize an escape route through Belgium for downed Allied airmen. Arrested in 1944 on charges of Vichy collaboration, but never officially indicted, Old War Bird Fonck spent his remaining years running a chemical-products firm in Paris...