Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from Poland and one from East Germany, along with token units from Hungary and a few from Bulgaria that had been brought in ships to Russia across the Black Sea. The Germans were prudently kept out of sight in the countryside, because Czechoslovaks remember all too vengefully the last visit by German troops...
...goose did not bite him. "I suppose he knew it was my birthday," said Alfred Lunt, 76. The quiet celebration took place on the Lunts' 110-acre country place in the rolling dairyland west of Milwaukee, where they have lived since their last major stage appearance in The Visit eight years ago. But the two troupers are still not ready to ring down the final curtain. Says Mrs. Lunt: "I'd probably swing back into my job if something really good came along." Says Mr. Lunt: "It's not over yet, you know...
Oddly Anachronistic. Thus, in his three-day visit, the Pope tried to identify Catholicism more effectively with reform and with various efforts to ease the social ills of a poverty-ridden continent. Whatever his success, the Pope was clearly moved by the opportunity. Speaking in accented but accurate Spanish to a crowd of peasants outside Bogota, he cried: "Greetings, greetings to you, campesinos of Colombia. And greetings to the workers of the land in Latin America. Greetings, greetings in the name of Jesus Christ, Our Lord, Our Savior. We confide to you that this meeting with...
Still, the occasion for the Pope's visit -the 39th International Eucharistic Congress-was oddly anachronistic in a day when a large and militant part of the Roman Catholic Church is turning away from pomp and tradition. The Eucharistic Congress, conceived in the late 19th century by a devout French grande dame, Marie Marthe Tamisier, is a liturgical spectacular that reaffirms the otherworldly glories of the faith. The event particularly venerates the Eucharist, the ritual in which, according to traditional Catholic doctrine, bread and wine are transubstantiated into the body and blood of Christ. With its emphasis on ceremony...
...Christian spirit, and it can also delay instead of advance that social uplifting to which you lawfully aspire. See to it rather that you support undertakings in education, that you seek to organize yourselves under the Christian banner and to modernize your agriculture." On the final day of his visit, Paul inaugurated the annual meeting of Latin American Catholic bishops by defending his encyclical prohibiting Catholics from practicing artificial birth control...