Word: altar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...born is the center and model of numberless Nativity scenes all over the world. Protestant, Catholic, Orthodox or sectarian, there are crèches today almost everywhere there are Christians. There are Nativities as sumptuous as the presepio (manger) in Rome's 11th century Church of Ara Coeli (Altar of Heaven) on Capitoline Hill, with its Christ child-legendarily carved by St. Luke himself-so bedecked with diamonds, rubies, emeralds, pearls and gold that its form is barely discernible and the surplus treasure has to be kept in a safe behind the altar. And there are homemade Nativities like...
Cornered by an aggressive newsman in the lobby of London's Ritz Hotel, Oilman Jean Paul Getty (TIME cover, Feb. 24, 1958) was persuaded to offer some reasons why the life of a billionaire is not roses all the way. "Quite a bother," to Getty, 66, and an altar-scarred veteran of five marriages, is a continual stream of letters from ladies proposing to be his sixth missus. Among his other complaints: "People keep writing me for money. They don't realize I don't have any spare cash...
...Renaissance, which is the same as saying that they invented the modern world-not, of course, an unmixed good." Its great artists-Michelangelo, Leonardo, Cellini-wrought wonders in a time of bloody political and family feuds such as history has seldom seen. Murders were committed at the very altar; homosexuality was a passion shared by artists and businessmen alike; the sins that Savonarola thundered against were as much a part of the city as its great sculpture and painting...
...they will live. They reveal an elaborate, prickly mind, of melancholy cast. Berenson's chief object was to lose himself in what he saw and liked. Brought up on Walter Pater and inspired by Charles Eliot Norton at Harvard, he practiced and preached self-immolation on the altar of beauty...
...Gonna Get Married (Lloyd Price; ABC-Paramount). The problem here is a lad who "may be too young to get married, but not too young to hide an achin' heart." Mother and son fight it out to a rocking draw just short of the altar...