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Dates: during 1970-1979
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In some ways it might better have been called All in the Holy Family. Mary and Joseph look like a couple of '60s flower children, he curly-haired and callow, she snub-nosed, discreetly nubile, with a hint of freckles. Much of what happens to them is intended as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: That's Showbiz? | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

The earliest embroidered versions of the Nativity are the apocryphal "infancy gospels" dating from the first centuries A.D., which, for good reason, the church never included in the New Testament. The Gospel makes the flight into Egypt a series of miracles. A mule turns into a boy; idols selfdestruct. Another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: That's Showbiz? | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

The most famous Nativity anecdotes were gathered together in the 13th century by Jacobus de Voragine in The Golden Legend, a compilation of saint stories that became a medieval bestseller. Among other things, Father Jacobus reports that the water of a Roman spring turned to oil on the day Christ...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: That's Showbiz? | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

Following gambling leads, the investigators also uncovered a tawdry story at the University of New Mexico that involved faking academic credits for Guard Craig Gilbert. Agents overheard a conversation between Coach Norm Ellenberger and Manny Goldstein, his assistant, in which Goldstein said he arranged to get some credits for Gilbert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Double Trouble | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

Imagine Atheist Florey's dismay, two years ago, when he walked into the holiday assembly program in the Hayward Elementary School in Sioux Falls, S. Dak., and found youngsters, including his kindergarten-age son Justin, giving out with O Come All Ye Faithful and Silent Night. Then a teacher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Caroling Crisis | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

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