Word: sainthood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Affair, by Graham Greene. A shocker about an adulterous love that leads to sainthood - in one of the most controversial endings of the year (TIME...
London will get to see the film next month, the U.S. whenever Hoellering completes distribution plans. Moviegoers should have a special interest in the lines of the invisible and diabolical Fourth Tempter, who urges Thomas à Becket to court martyrdom and the eventual reward of sainthood. The Fourth Tempter: T. S. Eliot himself...
...Nobis. In August 1914, heartsick at the World War then beginning, Giuseppe Sarto died at 79. Even during his lifetime he had been spoken of as a saint; soon after his death, steps were taken to proclaim him one. In his case, the "process" toward sainthood, which sometimes takes centuries, has moved in double-quick time; only last fall (TIME, Sept. 18) he was declared "venerable...
...that year, The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching issued a 388-page report on "American College Athletics" which caused charges, counter-charges, and protestations of sainthood in collegiate athletic circles all over the country...
From Shekels to Sainthood. In his 57 years Dalmia has won for himself four wives, India's second largest industrial fortune and all the comforts that rupees can buy. About two years ago the tycoon's ambition began to shift from shekels to sainthood. In a frank autobiography Dalmia made it clear that he possessed unusual spiritual qualities: "I shall die peacefully with a smile on my face-an enviable state unattainable by ordinary...