Word: veils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...young and sickly "saint" who has visions of the Crucifixion and shows the holy stigmata on Good Fridays, and her rebellious brother Michele, who thinks religion is fanaticism. Annina yearns to become a nun, but Michele thinks her visions are delusions and tries to prevent her from taking the veil...
...flat after Annina's vision. During a religious parade, he is beaten and shackled to a steel fence in symbolic martyrdom. He stabs his mistress after she accuses him of incestuous love for Annina. In a bleak subway station, he curses Annina when she insists on taking the veil. And finally Annina becomes the bride of Christ in a chilling ritual...
...that no power could stop the Communists, that the only alternatives were an appeasing coexistence or an atomic world war in which the dreadful best outcome would be liberation after U.S. "massive retaliation" against Red aggression. Neither at Berlin last February nor throughout the year did Dulles try to veil the free world's grim dependence on massive atomic retaliation...
...bastion in the Middle East. This was the achievement of one man, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. After World War I he raised a new army and drove out the Greeks, who were occupying Turkey with Allied backing. He threw out the established Moslem religion, warred on the fez and the veil, forced Western clothes, laws, letters and institutions on 16 million bewildered Turks. Through all the years of dazzling leadership, this bitter, sullen, debauched son of the Salonika slums never seems to have loved a soul; he abandoned his innumerable women and he killed many of the men who worked most...
...Western-educated 22-year-old, learned to her chagrin that Sultan already had at least one other wife, two sons and four daughters. Sultan hired a private eye and discovered that his bride-to-be was a feminist agitator with a firm determination not to hide herself behind a veil and live in a harem. One month after old Ibn Saud went to his grave, the marriage plans were canceled (TIME...