Word: vir
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary to set up a Program of Advanced Religious Studies under which 20 to 25 young religious leaders from all over the world will spend a year studying and getting to know each other. CJ In a new encyclical titled Sacra Vir-ginitas Pope Pius XII emphasized the superiority of virginity to marriage for clergy and religious orders and for those of the laity who would consecrate themselves entirely to God. "Sacred virginity and perfect chastity consecrated to the service of God," the encyclical said, "certainly is for the Church one of the most precious...
Whitney Darrow's president will be ready. He will press a button in his suit, blink his eyes once or twice, turn to his smiling predecessor and say, "Noli timere, o vir Harvardiensis, ad astra per aspera...
...Venice. With typical bluntness, red-haired Soprano Alda once described her marriage (1910-28) to Met Director Gatti-Casazza as "a sensible arrangement between a man and a woman who liked and respected each other ..." Vacationing in Venice last week with her second husband, Manhattan Advertising Executive Ray Vir Den, she had a fatal stroke 36 hours before they were to hear Old Friend Toscanini conduct at La Scala...
Courage, says Frost, is the human vir tue that counts most-courage to act on limited knowledge, courage to make the best of what is here and not whine for more: "Earth's the right place for love: I don't know where it's likely to go better." Frost is something of a philosophical an archist. Liberals and reformers move him to sly mirth. He has no confidence that the earth can be improved through social action or scientific gimcrackery: "One can safely say after from six to thirty thou sand years of experience that...