Word: christ
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...These that have turned the world upside down," is what the Apostles Paul and Silas were called at Thessalonica. In Christianity's early days, the gospel of Jesus Christ was a revolutionary religion indeed...
Dudley Hall, center for the College's 380 commuters, boasts a library including Webster's Dictionary, a few tired periodicals, and a copy of "Campaigning for Christ"--a collection which adds up to about two pages per member. Commuters are forced to buck Widener's waiting lit, its frightful lighting system and depressing atmosphere in order to read many widely used volumes which residents can peruse in the comfort of House libraries. If commuters wish to check books out overnight they are put to the further inconvenience of remaining at Widener or Boylston until nine o'clock...
...CHRIST STOPPED AT EBOLI (268 pp.)-Carlo Levi, franslated by Frances Frenaye-Farrar, Straus...
...shook their heads sympathetically. They pitied him for being out of civilized circulation; they and their forebears had lived thus for untold centuries-since the legendary days when Prince Aeneas and his Trojan followers founded the Roman race. "We're not Christians," the peasants gravely told Painter Levi; "Christ stopped short of here, at Eboli"-the point at which the highway leaves the blue Gulf of Taranto and loses itself in Lucania's arid wastes...
Painter Levi spent only one year in Gagliano, because he was one of the political prisoners to whom the triumphant Fascists granted amnesty after the fall of Addis Ababba. Christ Stopped at Eboli, a best-seller in Italy, is Levi's account of this year of exile. It is another instance of an able, discerning painter taking up a pen and thereby putting professional writers in the shade...