Word: virgin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...channelled, ordered mind will enter Burr Hall like a virgin stepping out of Tremont street into Scollay Square. Others will look at its exterior like a country boy watching the tattooed man in a carnival. But there are those who will watch it like a mother seeing her youngest take his first steps, in stocking feet...
...Speaker Is Made. At St. Viator College, Bourbonnais, Ill., he was an excellent student. He did not go in for sports, preferring dramatics and essays for the college magazine. (Sample: "I can imagine a St. Francis looking at a virgin lily and saying: 'Who made you, little one, and who made you so lovely and so frail...
...Soul, Lift Up Your Heart, Three to Get Married) are upstairs work, designed for the middle-brow reader. But some are serious, furnace-room philosophy (God and Intelligence, The Philosophy of Religion). This week Sheen published his 36th full-length book, The World's First Love, about the Virgin Mary. Like all his others, the book is dedicated to Mary - or, as he puts it in the dedication, "the Woman Who, in a world of Reds, shows forth the blue of hope." Tiller of the Soul. More than anything else, it was Sheen's conversions that made...
...newspapers and magazines around the globe (TIME, Dec. 3). The pictures showed the sun darkened near the horizon, supposedly shortly after noon on Oct. 13, 1917. Thousands of people who had gathered that day, on the same spot where three Portuguese children said they had seen visions of the Virgin Mary, declared that they had seen the noonday sun swirl and dip. The pictures were evidence of the miracle, said L'Osservatore, since they were of "rigorously authentic origin" and had been snapped by a witness who "succeeded in fixing the exceptional scene." Last week, L'Osservatore changed...
...windswept Bolivian tin-mining center of Oruro, garishly garbed Indian miners paraded through the streets last week behind some 60 mules and oxen laden with silverware and assorted household objects. Arriving at the Church of the Virgin of the Cave, patroness of Oruro tin diggers, the marchers symbolically offered their silver and china to the Virgin -just as their ancestors brought metal and pottery objects to their gods to seek good fortune. Then an Indian cast in the role of Lucifer, masked and cloaked in red velvet, capered into the area before the church doors. Thus began La Diablada...