Word: devout
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...reach for brickbats and shillelaghs at the slightest hint of criticism. But last week, after a telling blast against Boston Catholicism, they scarcely knew what head to crack: the blast had been loosed in the Commonweal, a Catholic weekly. It was signed "Katherine Loughlin," a pseudonym protecting a middleaged, devout, Irish Catholic spinster, her family and a relative who is a priest...
...once said, "believes that there is no God and that Mary is His mother." Last week the suavest living philosopher further compounded the paradox. At 82, he published The Idea of Christ in the Gospels (Scribner; $2.75), probably his most important book. It is also probably the most devout book ever written by an unbeliever: it suggests that' Santayana is a far better Christian, and scarcely less orthodox, than the vast majority of believers...
Tall (6 ft. 2 in.), courtly ("You are certainly a good tucker," said Edith Bolling Gait Wilson as he patted a lap robe around her), devout (he came to believe that the Secret Service acted directly under divine providence), and looking somewhat like one of the later Antonines, Colonel Starling soon found himself on the White House Detail. For almost 30 years, first as an "SS man" and later as chief of "the Detail," the Colonel suffered the grave responsibility of guarding the lives of five U.S. Presidents from the homicidal reflexes of their fellow citizens. The result...
...meet this crisis, the Vatican looks to the ideological and material support of the U.S. To enlist U.S. support, it looks chiefly to the devout but uniquely American career and character of Francis Cardinal Spellman...
...memory of Debussy-a seldom played twelve-minute symphony for wind instruments, which he still thinks is a wonderful work but was too new for the public then. In 1930 Koussevitsky persuaded him to write a symphony for the 50th anniversary of the Boston Orchestra. Stravinsky, a devout Greek Catholic, wrote the Symphony of Psalms, with three choral movements sung in Latin. The next came in 1940, when the Chicago Symphony Orchestra celebrated its 50th anniversary. Says Stravinsky drily: "I am a composer of anniversaries." He composed a symphony in four parts, "in the classical way," which Chicago liked better...