Word: christe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...principle of Swadeshi (home manufacture, i.e., spinning) is akin to the ancient Greek spirit of the hearth and Chinese ancestor worship. Satyagraha was coined by Gandhi from the words Saty (truth and love) and agraha (firmness) as the Hindu interpretation of soul force. Closely akin to this is Christ's admonition to "turn the other cheek...
...project: a colossal statue of Christ to be erected in front of the new headquarters of the National Catholic Welfare Conference-voice of the U.S. hierarchy-on Washington's Massachusetts Avenue. In an open competition 64 models were submitted, from which three finalists were picked. The winner is to be chosen in October. Last week all three models were catching it, hot & heavy...
...Liturgical Arts Society, Inc., which ran the competition, preserved a discreet silence. But indirectly they hinted that 1) the finalists will probably revise their models before submitting them again in the fall, 2) critics would do well to suspend judgment until then, 3) the subject of the statue-"Christ, the Light of the World"-is far from easy to portray in bronze...
...three finalists, in fact, had widely differing ideas about the subject. Manhattan's Suzanne Nicolas decided that divine law was the light, depicted Christ as lawgiver. Robert C. Koepnick of Dayton, Ohio felt that Christ's words were the light of mankind, showed Him preaching. Brooklyn's George Kratina went symbolic, depicted Him with outflung arms and spreading, streamlined garments, levitating overhead like a benevolent aurora borealis...
None of these ideas was part of the original inspiration which came six years ago to Bishop John Francis Noll of Fort Wayne. The Bishop had visualized a huge figure of Christ as "Light of the World," which, if erected in Washington, would serve as a beacon to warn Catholics of "the necessity of national Christian action against the almost worldwide tide of Communism which seems to be sweeping toward...