Word: armenian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...holding regular services. It was not until 1873 that it began to attract its biggest audiences. To hear the "pulpit genius," Dr. Joseph Parker, actors, authors, artists and bohemians pressed into City Temple alongside primmer Victorians. Preacher Parker often rewarded them with a shocker; when, during the Turkish-Armenian hostilities, he thundered. "I say God damn the Sultan!'', the newspapers headlined: DR. PARKER LETS HIMSELF...
After a photographer's apprenticeship in Boston, Armenian-born Yousuf Karsh set up his own portrait studio in Ottawa because he yearned to photograph prominent men. Now a courtly 51, Karsh of Ottawa is as renowned as most of his subjects. Last week the Canadian capital paid the world's foremost portrait photographer the unusual compliment of an exhibition at the National Gallery...
...Gourmet Exploration ($40, lunch extra) : Visits to African, Armenian, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish restaurants. The semester winds up with a class discussion on "low-caloric method...
...mood of last week's meeting was newly irenic. Evangelical Theologian Edmund Schlink of Heidelberg was invited to address one of the numerous study groups on "Ritual as Understood by Protestant Theology" and was enthusiastically applauded. Participants attended Mass in more than 100 churches, and in the Byzantine, Armenian, Maronite and Ethiopian rites as well as the Roman. In specially designated churches, confessions were heard in 17 languages...
...religious strife that ravaged Lebanon for years. Figuring that Christians outnumber Moslems 6 to 5. 45 places of the Parliament's 99 seats were apportioned to the Moslems (subdivided into three sects) and 54 to Christians (30 Maronite Roman Catholic, eleven Greek Orthodox, six Greek Catholic, four Armenian Orthodox, one Armenian Catholic, one Protestant, one miscellaneous minorities). This convention distinguishes Lebanon as the world's only free nation in which the complexion of Parliament can always be predicted...