Word: devoutness
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...know what to say," says she. But many Americans still make a project of the annual ritual. One of my colleagues and his wife buy their cards right after Christmas for the following season; it saves money. They send nonsectarian UNICEF cards to friends who are Jewish but not devout, Hannukah cards to Jewish friends who are devout, religious designs to fellow Christians and letters of varying length to out-of-towners. It takes weeks, and they rarely get through their list. I hope I'm on it-and I wonder what they'll think of my card...
...position on abortion. While Ford supports a constitutional amendment to allow the states to outlaw abortion. Carter does not, though he personally is against abortion. Moreover, Carter is a Southern Baptist, and ethnics view that denomination suspiciously because of its anti-Catholicism in years past. Ford is also a devout Protestant (Episcopalian), but many ethnics feel more comfortable with him than with Carter because the President does not appear to make his religion so paramount...
...local prosecutor immediately launched an investigation. Anneliese, it seems, was a case straight out of The Exorcist. Ever since high school she had been subject to convulsive seizures, attacks that a neurologist diagnosed as epilepsy. Doctors had little success in treating her. Her devout parents, in desperation, began consulting priests. Finally, with permission from Bishop Josef Stangl of Wūrzburg, they brought in two exorcists-Father Arnold Renz, a former missionary in China, and Father Ernst Alt, a pastor in a nearby community. For ten months, beginning last September and continuing until shortly before her death, the two priests...
...stage. She made her debut with the Hamburg Opera in 1910, four years later with the Vienna Opera, where she created several roles for her friend Richard Strauss, and in 1934 with the Metropolitan. Notable among her 100 roles were her yielding Sieglinde in Die Walküre, her devout Elisabeth in Tannhäuser and, most outstanding of all, her matchless Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier. At 62, she reduced a Town Hall audience to tears when she announced her retirement, quoting the Marschallin, who looked at her aging face in the mirror and said: "It is time...
...students from Germany, Poland, Switzerland or England who had taken the idealism of their Greek literature professors too much to heart. When they began to reach Greece by the dozens and then by the hundreds, they learned that no one knew they were coming, and no one wanted them. Devout Orthodox villagers, furthermore, did not share their reverence for the philosophers of the Golden Age, whom Eastern Christians abhorred as pagans. There was nothing for the philhellenes to do except flounder about and die. Enough did so that the great powers became queasy; all ports of embarkation to Greece, except...