Word: via
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...supporters of state power who won out against the champions of church power. In the words of Father Murray, the Gelasian principle of "two there are" became "one there is"-one increasingly powerful state. From absolutist monarchy, Murray sees a straight line of development to modern "totalitarian democracy" via the French Revolution's Jacobin republic, which put the civil government in almost complete control of church affairs. To this day, French separation of church and state makes Thomas Jefferson's famous "wall" look like a split-rail fence...
Both churches and mosques were on the archbishop's itinerary. Guarded by two black-uniformed kawases (attendants) armed with scimitars, he toured Jerusalem's mosques, wearing large sheepskin overslippers. Then the Primate walked up the Via Dolorosa on the route where Christ had climbed to Calvary...
...shivering in the winter streets. He fed her, brought her back to his rented room. and let her sleep in his bed while he slept on the floor. When his landladies, two spinster sisters, found out about it, Pound was fired. This episode triggered his departure for London via Venice...
...clues to the "killer" or the motive. Then the police traced Mrs. Knight's former husband to a town in Sussex. He had not seen his wife in 24 years, he said, but grumbled that nevertheless he was still paying her ?2 ($5.60) a week in support money via the clerk of the magistrates' court in Rhyl. Quite right, confirmed the clerk; since 1940 he had handled $5,877 on her behalf. But, he added, for many years the person who had come to pick it up was not the invalid Frances Knight, but her landlady, Sarah Jane...
...college or university community, the one institution which takes most seriously the ethos of the society. Politically, he lives on campuses with others of identical interests. In most cases, because either of his youth or of his dark skin, he can not vote and so can neither organize via the polls not suffer the possibility of losing his vote...