Word: devoutely
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What did it feel like to be there? Said Hillary: "Damn good." Tenzing, a devout Buddhist, said: "I thought of God and the greatness of His work...
...paintings and bring them to Granada for a show. By poking into old monasteries and crumbling castles, Art Lover Caturla had found eight that were entirely unknown to the outside world. There was a child Jesus sitting with a crown of thorns in his lap, a warmly devout Santa Eufemia, and The Holy Family clustered around a bowl of fruit. Among other outstanding works in the show: a solemn Santa Lucia and a prayerful, intent Fray Geronimo Perez...
Kirk begins with Edmund Burke, founder of a great line of British-American conservatives. Son of a Dublin lawyer, devout Anglican, party manager of the Whigs, Burke lived in an England torn and undermined by the philosophy of the French Revolution much as the U.S. in the '305 was torn and undermined by the philosophy of the Communist Revolution. In press, Parliament and public opinion, Burke saw signs that Britain was in danger from the doctrines across the Channel. If his fears now seem exaggerated, that impression is perhaps Burke's greatest achievement. "He succeeded," says Kirk...
...country's most honored shrine. Last month, for a huge mural on Mexican theatrical history, ex-Communist Artist Diego Rivera solemnly sketched the famed comedian Cantinflas in his trademark-uniform, a shabby coat, and then drew the Virgin on the coat. "Sacrilege!" protested Mexico's devout, while Rivera, ignoring the uproar, diligently filled in the outlines around the figure...
...Many a devout French Red believes that if only Maurice Thorez would come back from Russia, things would get better. Thorez, party boss in France, suffered a stroke in 1950, went to Russia for treatment, has not been seen in France since; many a non-Communist believes that he is dead. Last week L'Huma published a picture of a sickly Maurice Thorez with wife (see cut), claiming that it had been taken in Russia on Feb. 1 of this year. To skeptical Frenchmen, neither the photography nor the claim proved anything-except that Moscow wants the French faithful...