Word: wente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Have Castro's travels taught him the peril of Red support? Nothing in last week's events proved that he doubts the merits of a popular front, though he did seem to want Communist infiltration to appear less blatant. Under wraps, the Red drive for power went on. Items...
...Executions, a prime instrument of terror, went on. Schoolteacher Olga Herrera Marcos, charged with squealing on rebels, may become the first woman "war criminal" to face a firing squad. Her death sentence has been appealed. Four former soldiers, sentenced to prison terms by the trial court, were sentenced to death upon "appeal" by the government. Death toll...
...Rome as Christendom's foremost city. But the Copts' Monophysite theology (which holds that Christ has only a single nature in which the human and divine are blended) was eventually condemned by the Council of Chalcedon in 451, and with the emergence of Islam, Coptic Christianity virtually went underground for centuries...
Victor Hugo's novel went on the Index in 1864 under pressure from Napoleon III, who hoped to curtail the popularity of a book in which revolutionaries were honest and noble. Said one Vatican spokesman: "It occurred to us that, with doctrinally objectionable passages annotated, this essentially Christian book might do some good." The annotations appear in the form of footnotes. Thus Hugo, in chapter four, describes the bishop's doctrine: "Err, yield to temptation, sin, but be just!" Says a footnote: "A very easy and peaceable moral thesis which had nothing in common with Catholic doctrine...
Doughnuts & Nibbles. And so it went: a baritone-soprano duo, a dramatic monologue by a man who told the stirring story of a 41-year-old doughnut, a book reviewer, a man showing a travel film on Texas. Biggest hit: an obviously talented 17-year-old Korean pianist named Tong II Han, whose fluid performance of Scarlatti and Chopin sent the audience into a dither...