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Moslem disunity saved the Crusading states from destruction for the greater part of a century. But disunity among the Christians in the end proved more serious. The Christian conquerors from the West found large colonies of co-religionists in the Holy Land, of the Orthodox, Syrian and Armenian rites. Each variety of Christian regarded the others as heretical and untrustworthy, and acted accordingly. These theological differences, multiplied by the Crusaders' greed and frequent acts of cruelty, cost them the active sympathy of many native Christians. The great failure of the Crusades, however, was the lack of unity between...
...With dialect lyrics by Armenian-American William Saroyan and a tricky harpsichord accompaniment...
There were two dissenting voices. Said U.S. Evangelist Georgia Harkness, a Methodist and one of the only two women delegates, "I am disappointed. The American delegation is not as vocal as it should be, and too little is said of the dynamic side of Christian experience." Said Armenian Orthodox Archbishop Tiran Nersoyan: "Discussions don't solve problems. History does...
Died. Archbishop Garegin Hovsepian, 84, head of the Armenian Orthodox churches in the Near East, and former primate (1937-44) of the Armenian Church of America; in Antelias, Lebanon...
...liveliest figures in Parisian art circles these days is an Armenian painter named Krikor Bedikian, who rejects all the artistic isms of contemporary Paris in favor of a strong, realistic style of his own. His guiding rule is one that he believes also guided the men of the Italian Renaissance: "Paint so that even illiterates will understand...