Word: altars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That was going to the altar...
...Christmas morning, the monks got up early and hurried to the chapel to look at their presents again. There before the altar they saw Cantalbert's present. "Monstrous!" they cried. "Desecration! Sacrilege! Insane!" But then came a miracle...
...single tenure whereby they achieve the sole discretionary power of rejection without review. It is neither inapt nor impertinent to suggest that, if the issue is answered in the affirmative, the political system under which the Review functions has profound similarities with that system the editors propose is the altar on which the eligible in question burns holy incense. The Review achieves in the field of its own forum the very result we agree is heinous--self-perpetuation by standards of conduct variable at will and without recourse. Robert Henigson...
...Madrid's National Carmelite Church. While Rouault's paintings glow with almost painfully intense devotion, Cossio's masterpiece gleams cool and peaceful as a September dawn. Cossio, 54, spent three years on the mural, hopes to finish its companion for the opposite side of the altar in another year...
Twist of the Knife. Love mislaid on the altar of totalitarian politics is also the theme of An Epitaph for Love. Like the Green thriller, it is full of brooding atmospherics and clever character analysis. The hero, Harry Lucas, is a footloose English writer in Florence, inwardly reliving the wartime days when he worked with the Italian partisans. His most haunting memory : a tug of war between love and loyalty, in which he turned in his girl Nina to the partisan chief Giulio because she was a German agent. The wound is reopened and history re-enacted when Florence...