Word: magdalen
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...classes using the new catechism, children are handed paper and crayons, are encouraged to draw their own conceptions of what they learn, such as Mary Magdalen's joy on Easter when she finds Jesus living, or what the Crucifixion was like. Instructors are warned that "fear is a bad educator"; thus sin should be presented not as "a 'stain' or spot" on the soul but as the act of a person who says...
...number of nominating signatures for each candidate. "She cheated me!" roared Bowra, when the flamboyant Miss Starkie, whose trademark is red underwear and a French sailor's hat, turned up with 301 names for Blunden to Bowra's 36 for Lowell. "She'll be standing on Magdalen Bridge selling rosettes next." Replied Starkie, who lectures in French: "I think a contest is fun. I love a battle." She admitted she had not read Poet Blunden's work "in years," adding that "nobody is interested in the best candidate-you back your fancy...
...have given plenty of space to speculative proposals for further Catholic reforms in clerical celibacy and the theology of marriage. It is also apparent in the zest with which laymen are writing about Catholic theology, often critically. In a new book called Objections to Roman Catholicism, British Housewife Magdalen Coffin challenges many devotional practices as superstition; Rosemary Haughton writes a sharp but reasoned demand for more freedom in the church...
...sits at the head of Oxford's intellectual table-a proud hatchery of Prime Ministers, archbishops, cardinals and viceroys. Of Balliol's 400-odd students, 20% regularly win first-class honors on final exams-a record unmatched by any other Oxford college, not even haughty Magdalen...
...official gesture of sympathy by the French government for the death of 121 Georgians who were killed when a plane chartered by the Atlanta Art Association crashed at Orly Airport near Paris last June. Whistler's Mother's traveling companion was The Penitent St. Mary Magdalen, by the 17th century French painter Georges de La Tour, also lent to Atlanta by the Louvre. The arrival of the paintings in Atlanta was one of the biggest events since the opening of Gone With the Wind clogged Peachtree Street with hoopskirts and Hollywood types. Says Director Wilhelmus Bryan...