Word: catacomb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Switzerland he buys a watch, and in Italy he goes to the opera. Allowing for seasonal factors, it's as simple as that." His wide-eyed, hoked-up style and notions about what tourists want to do with their time abroad would probably make Baedeker turn over in his catacomb...
...Catacomb Christianity. The prophetic critic of Nazism mellowed into an enigmatic neutral during the cold war. In 1945, he defended the return of political freedom to the German people, who, he said, had been Hitler's first victims. He consistently refused to condemn the aggressions of Russia with anything like the same vigor with which he had challenged Hitler. Unlike Nazism, Barth argued, Communism was a totally materialistic philosophy whose frank atheism represented no threat to the internal authenticity of the church. He thus refused to protest the Communist invasion of Hungary-although when a friend visited...
...helped create the climate for ecumenism, he later came to criticize the organization as "too institutionalist." Such aloofness from trends others thought relevant inevitably won him criticism. Reinhold Niebuhr, once something of a follower, dismissed Barth's politics as naive and his theology as suitable only for catacomb Christianity. Other contemporary theologians charged that Barth paid too little attention to the role of history and sociology in the development of Christianity and that he spoke a Biblicist language to modern men crying for a fresher mode of revelation. Yet even his critics had to acknowledge that theology could never...
...play's most impressive assets. In the central role, Donald Pleasence gives a performance of atomic power and blinding virtuosity; Harold Pinter directorially chills the stage to doom temperature. The very first scene bursts on the playgoer with somber eclat. In an elegant private chapel, dim as a catacomb, a finger of light rests on Pleasence as he kneels rapt in prayer. The Verdi Requiem saturates the air like incense. Suddenly, the stage is ablaze with light, louvers are turning, and the backdrop becomes a penthouse view of Manhattan's skyscrapers...
With the meticulousness of a ghoul in a catacomb, he establishes his heroine Rosemary as a lapsed Catholic. Her story begins when she and her ambitious actor-husband, Guy, take up residence in the Bramford, a prestigious and fabled apartment house on the West Side of Manhattan-a place obviously modeled after the proud, gloomy old Dakota, on Central Park West. One of the fables of the Bramford concerns the prevalence of witches there...