Word: vi
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Gierek, whose country is predominantly Roman Catholic, last week requested and was granted an audience with Pope Paul VI in the Vatican...
...have been a birthday celebration, but the words were tinged with melancholy. "We feel the fragility of human life," Pope Paul VI told a crowd of 100,000 in St. Peter's Square last week on the day before he turned 80. "The fear of God's judgment at the moment of death is always present and full of mystery...
Pope Paul VI approved a decree this summer citing "the heroic virtues" of Father Damien, the first step on the road toward sainthood for the Belgian-born missionary. Famed for his devotion to victims of leprosy in Hawaii, Father Damien followed a calling that led to his death from the disease. Now the leprosarium that he made famous, Kalaupapa, is dying of attrition-and for the most welcome reasons: new cases of the disease have become rare among ethnic Hawaiians and part-Hawaiians, and leprosy can be treated so successfully today that newly identified patients soon become noncontagious. The savage...
...night places are for members only, with fees and dues ranging as high as $1,000 a year. Many have good-and expensive-restaurants and such added recreational lures as pool, pinball and backgammon rooms. In many, the furnishings can best be described as haul kitsch: kaleidoscopic lighting, silver vińyl banquettes, tented nooks, birch trees hung with twinkly Italian lights, jungles of synthetic plants, Plexiglas floors. Not a few, however, are decorated in notably good taste; and some seem to have been designed by the people who went on to make Star Wars...
...Technically, the Jubilee should have been celebrated on Feb. 6, the date on which she ascended the throne following the death of her father George VI. But Buckingham Palace decided that the country, to say nothing of tourists, would enjoy the festivities more in June than during the chill of an English winter...