Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some countries, Catholics will be obliged to ask full religious freedom for all, resigned at being forced to cohabitate where they alone should rightfully be allowed to live. But in doing this the church does not renounce her thesis . . . but merely adapts herself . . . Hence arises the great scandal among Protestants . . . We ask Protestants to understand that the Catholic church would betray her trust if she were to proclaim . . . that error can have the same rights as truth . . . The church cannot blush for her own want of tolerance, as she asserts it in principle and applies it in practice...
Diego Rivera was in hot water again last week. His mural in Mexico City's Del Prado Hotel (TIME, Oct. 6) had suddenly become a national scandal. Someone had informed the Archbishop that the mural contained a portrait of Don Ignacio Ramirez (an anticlerical follower of Juarez) holding a placard with the words Dios no existe ("God does not exist"-see cut). Sadly, the Archbishop canceled a date to bless the just-completed hotel and went off to bless some jai alai courts instead...
...French press, which somehow got all the details, had a field day. Headlined the Paris Liberation: SACHA GUITRY EXECUTED BY RIDICULE. Said Sacha: "This is a veritable scandal...
Françcaise: "His work is the most flagrantly unpunished intellectual and moral scandal of the century." Thirty years after his first book, he lamented: "I have scarcely known, throughout my 'career,' anything but flops...
...twenty-one airplane pilots over Austria. The executioner of the gods in this instance is Joe's son Chris, home from the wars, and his instrument is the last letter of his brother Larry who died off the coast of China. Larry confessed in it that his father's scandal was more than he could bear and that his next mission would be his last. It is only the knowledge that he caused his own son's death which lays Joe open, and once Joe is in the open, he can find no better way out of his predicament than...