Word: christe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Forbes can only nod affectionately towards Longfellow's ballad. The Paul Revere who roused the Middlesex village and farms was no hotheaded youth, but a stocky family man of 40. Neither did he gallop in wild anapest down the road to Lexington. The lanterns that were hung in Christ's Church steeple ("one if by land, two if by sea") were not hung for Paul Revere. He had helped put them there. His ride was a cool, businesslike night's work, but at first Revere was rattled. He had forgotten to bring his spurs and a cloth...
...What about that man, Jesus Christ? I offered Him the whole world from a moun tain top one time and he turned me down...
...Greater India." The people who went to contemplate his 69 hard-won pieces in stone and bronze were mainly Mr. Loo's friends-museum curators, students, artists. While the learned visitors took their tea, found a corner for sketching, or discussed the possible influence of Buddha upon Christ, the gods of ancient India-Brahma, Siva, Vishnu, Buddha- looked down with old smiles...
...executives the president. One day the new president called up Board Chairman Campbell for permission to make a change in plant methods. Campbell asked him what was stopping him. "Aren't you Chairman of the Board?" the president wanted to know. Says Campbell: "I said, 'For Christ's sake, that's eyewash. You run the job. I haven't heard from him since, but we are getting the product in a stream you couldn't believe...
...Maria's" recent Manhattan exhibition, critics found her work in general "pagan and violent," her Christ and St. Francis, spiritual and austere. Some saw in her work the influence of the French sculptor, Pierre Bourdelle...