Word: devoutness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mans, France, last week featured sketches by two designers who were asked to envision something with "more presence, prestige and modernity" for priests presiding at altars of the future. No impious exercise, the designs were commissioned by a committee of bishops, priests and art historians; the designers consider themselves devout Catholics, and approached their task with missionary zeal...
RHODES. James Daughdrill, head of little (1,060 students) Rhodes College in Memphis, is a devout bottom-liner. President at age 25 of a $17 million carpet and textile business, he chucked it all in 1964 to study for the Presbyterian ministry, then in 1973 took charge of an obscure, financially rocky college called Southwestern at Memphis. In his first year he turned an operating deficit of $1.2 million into black ink, and has not been in the red since. In 1978 he took on the faculty and eliminated an all but automatic tenure system that Daughdrill says "made...
...Dobrynin chomped Tom's Mom's chocolate-chunk cookies at Reagan's dinner table, then jetted off to Moscow to warn his superiors about the gunslinger. At congressional prayer breakfasts, where devout Americans roared and heaved, he was the pious atheist. He negotiated the new Soviet embassy on Washington's highest and best land, while the new American embassy in Moscow ended up in a sump...
Kenneth Kaunda, 61, who has been President of Zambia since his country's independence in 1964, is one of black Africa's elder statesmen. Though not a Marxist, he is a firmly committed nationalist who supported the independence struggles in Angola, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. Kaunda is, however, also a devout Christian who believes that "when the good Lord said 'Love thy neighbor as thyself,' he didn't mention color." He has met with South African leaders in an effort to bring about an end to apartheid. TIME Diplomatic Correspondent William Stewart recently visited the Zambian capital of Lusaka to talk...
...group seems more churchly than the Koreans, devout Protestants in Asia and now devout Protestants in New York. In Elmhurst alone they have established at least four churches. The Indian population in Queens, settled for decades and now 25,000 strong, has an elaborate cultural center-cum-Hindu temple in Flushing, complete with domes and sculpted elephants. One day in May, Kari and Shanthi Naidu were worshiping at the altar of Sri Mahalaksai, a god of well- being. They had paid a Hindu priest $5 for a prayer service. "Quite frankly," says Kari Naidu, "I did not become a believer...