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ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: This is WEEKEND EDITION. I'm Robert Siegel.
One of the most controversial organizations within the Roman catholic
church is as group known as Opus Dei, which means "The Work of God.
Followers of Opus Dei believe their founder is a saint who has helped
elevate the statute of lay people within church. But some critics
of Opus Dei say it is a secretive, cult-like organization that exerts
undue influence on the Vatican.
NPR's Lynn Neary recently visited Opus Dei's headquarters in Rome
and she has this report.
LYNN NEARY, NPR REPORTER: The idea ...
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Memories of a politically incorrect childhood.
Magazine article from: Phi Delta Kappan
; ...from the novel Sangre y Arena by the world-famous Vicente Blasco Ibanez. It seems astonishing to me now that in my working...at all in my family - I somehow got the idea that Blasco Ibanez was a major writer. So it didn't seem strange back...
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A day for movies that honor mothers.
Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
; ...Twentieth Century Fox -- and his epics are sumptuous-looking, based on literate bestsellers (by authors like Vicente Blasco Ibanez, Samuel Shellabarger and Thomas Costain) and full of the history that Warners' Flynn just leaped and laughed...
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`El Desastre' Spain in Defeat, 1898.
Magazine article from: History Today
; ...wrote soldier Alvarez Angulo. The food on board consisted of onions, dried sardines and more onions. The writer Vicente Blasco Ibanez complained: The ships that brought our men back to our shores have not been like boats from the Motherland, but...
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Arpa International Film Festival Announces Official Selection and 90th Birthday Tribute to Screen Legend Rita Hayworth With Revival of 'Blood and Sand'.
Newspaper article from: Entertainment Newsweekly
; ...who would become, as Life Magazine hailed her, 'the Love Goddess of the 20th Century.'" Based on a novel by Vicente Blasco Ibanez, "Blood and Sand" was helmed by pioneer film director Rouben Mamoulian, and stars Tyrone Power as a bullfighter...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...Sir Thomas Bodley, scholar and founder of the Bodleian Library, 1613; Thomas Treadgold, engineer, 1829; Vicente Blasco Ibanez, writer and politician, 1928; George Edward Bateman Saintsbury, literary critic and historian, 1933; Mikhail...
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BACK IN THE DAY SOME OF THE TIDBITS - WOODROW WILSON WAS PRESIDENT - FROM 1918, THE LAST TIME THE SOX WON IT ALL
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...by Sam Ehrlich "Sometime" by Rida Johnson Young BEST-SELLING BOOK "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" by Vicente Blasco Ibanez OTHER POPULAR BOOKS "My Antonia" by Willa Cather "The Magnificent Ambersons" by Booth Tarkington "The Eminent...
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Split personality. (Church And State).
Magazine article from: The Humanist
; ...such classics as Portuguese novelist Jose-Maria Eca de Queiroz's The Sin of Father Amaro, Spanish novelist Vicente Blasco Ibanez's The Cathedral, and Ambrose Bierce's The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter.) * that is running low on priests...
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Don't cry for free, Argentina.(COMMENTARY)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times
; ...is true for many families from France, Germany and elsewhere. It's an important cultural factor, as seen in Vicente Blasco Ibanez's novel, Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, about Argentine families from France and Germany who intermarry...
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ASK THE GLOBE
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...the names of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. -- C.M., Framingham A. Inspiration for Spanish writer Vicente Blasco Ibanez's powerful novel of World War I, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are mentioned in the sixth chapter of the...
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