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Cushing handled his job with such zeal that O'Connell made him an auxiliary bishop in 1939 to succeed Francis Spellman, who had been named Archbishop of New York. When O'Connell died in April 1944, Cushing was made temporary administrator of the archdiocese, and later that year he was formally installed as archbishop, thanks in large part to the intervention of Spellman. Friends then and now, Cushing and Spellman went through a long decade of cool relations. "The difference was to a large degree temperamental-the difference between a roughie [Cushing] and a smoothie," explains one veteran...
...With the zeal of a Savonarola, Zwingli tried to legislate Zurich into a facsimile of God's kingdom on earth. The town council passed stern laws against adultery and fornication and made attendance at Sunday services compulsory. But Zurich was an ideal community only for those who saw things Zwingli's way. Catholics were fined and were forbidden to run for elective offices, and Zwingli approved exile and execution for Anabaptist heretics who wanted a more radical reformation than he allowed...
Priests who would play Luther are notably rare in the Roman Catholic Church today, and Father Du Bay became something of a national celebrity. A fresh-faced man of 29, he had twice been transferred from parishes on charges of pressing for civil rights with excessive zeal. He then applied for mission service in Kenya, and instead was made administrative assistant in a mostly Negro parish in Compton, an industrial suburb of Los Angeles. Impressed by his parishioners' passionate concern for equality, Father Du Bay did a slow burn. One morning fortnight ago, he said Mass, then went...
...made of aluminum, copper and magnesium. Though Collie's magnetized sculptures do not soar with full air borne freedom, they do hover and float* above their pedestals, attached by almost imperceptible nylon strings. The effect is playful and magical-rather like Collie himself, who combines the hot-eyed zeal of a young Merlin with the twinkle-eyed grin of a boy with a toy. Collie, 25, calls his works spatial-absolutes: spatial because they are floating in space, absolute because "the true essence of a shape, its 100% value" can be fully experienced and appreciated only when...
Adlai Stevenson agreed with that and invited Maine's Colby College students to get jailed, if necessary, since "a jail sentence is no longer a dishonor but a proud achievement." At Marquette, Attorney General Robert Kennedy, on the other hand, warned "the concerned generation" not to let zeal carry them as far as jail. Secretary of State Dean Rusk, while approving all these domestic good works, told Smith girls that foreign policy is "as close and important as your friends and family, as everything you cherish...