Word: wined
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...patients of a mental hospital or members of the Society to Stamp Out Christianity. It was a religious show, staged by a Congregationalist mission that is run by an ordained minister. The experiment is so far out that many a Congregationalist would question whether the Bread and Wine Mission of San Francisco's North Beach district is in the church at all. But the Rev. Pierre Delattre has no doubt whatever about...
...gave the place no name, merely put a sign on the door announcing the hours bread and wine would be served. Eventually it came to be called the Bread and Wine Mission-known informally as "The Mission" to the swingers, wailers and generally far-out, cats who began filling the place almost immediately...
Delattre holds weekly seminars in poetry and prose, stages original plays, has a psychiatrist from the San Francisco Veterans' Administration give group therapy sessions. On Sundays Delattre invites a select half-dozen to his flat for an agape* of bread, wine and cheese...
...trousers and a hooded sweatshirt with a large cross hanging from his neck, Pastor Delattre is a busy man-serving his bread and wine, bailing his flock out of jail, counseling pregnant girls, speaking to church groups, being pointed out to tourists (the mission is a regular stop for sightseeing buses). He never brings up the subject of religion. "If they ask, I reply. And, believe me, many people preach to me, and I've been transformed. Church people often ask me: 'Have things been successful? How many have become Christians? Is this worth the investment?' When...
...Comforts. In less than six months, Frondizi's austerity has turned from vague phrase into dinner-table reality. Headlined Noticias Gráficas: DISASTER HITS ARGENTINE TABLE. "Commodities that were never missing from tables of the most modest homes," the paper said, "are now fast disappearing, such as wine, butter and the classic Argentine barbecue. How far can a meager family income...