Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which his predecessor went mad.* His power in matters of faith, order and polity is far more limited than that of the Pope; yet he is looked upon as "Elder Brother" by the churches of Alexandria, Antioch, Jerusalem, Russia,. Cyprus, Greece, Bulgaria, ATHENAGORAS I On a wooden throne, a nylon ruler...
...Friends." "Now we have a nylon Patriarch," said the Turks when Athenagoras, just back from 18 years in the U.S.,' ascended the 1,000-year-old wooden throne in Istanbul's Phanari Cathedral (TIME, Nov. 15, 1948). Born a Turkish subject in a village near the Greek-Albanian border, Aristoklis Spyrou was appointed in 1919 to the Metropolitan Church of Athens. In 1930 the Orthodox population of the New World, a diocese of the Istanbul Patriarchate, needed a steady hand and a good brain to untangle a snarl of jealousy and intrigue into which the church had fallen...
Ondine, though, is not a monologue, and Miss Hepburn's co-star, Mcl Ferrer is also quite good. At first a bit wooden and seemingly nervous, he becomes more involved in his part by the second act, and dominates the third. In deliberate contrast to Ondine's flighty movement, Ferrer's Hans-the knight-is static. Unfortunately he carries his set posture over into scenes in which he could, in the absence of Miss Hepburn, lend force to the action...
...time for morning prayers, as the crack Pakistan Mail raced westward across the Sind desert one day last week. In the wooden cars at the front of the train, crowded beyond normal capacity, shivering Moslem passengers balanced precariously on narrow wooden seats to bend their knees in the direction of Mecca. In cars reserved for them, veiled womenfolk nursed babies and tied up bedrolls in anticipation of arrival at Karachi in an hour's time. Pakistan's bearded Foreign Minister Sir Mohammed Zafrullah Khan made his devotions in the quiet of an air-conditioned carriage...
...Mail's engineer could even slam on his brakes, the locomotive was plowing through the tank cars. An explosion rent the air, and the first two cars burst into flame like struck matches. A thick column of smoke boiled into the air as the fire spread along the wooden ties setting car after car aflame. Before the flames reached his car, Foreign Minister Zafrullah Khan was hauled to safety, but others were not so lucky. Despite an official claim of only 150 dead, some survivors estimated that nearly 300 had lost their lives in the wreck. One railroad worker...