Word: christe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...skyscraper, the Palace of Soviets, which was to be the world's biggest and grandest edifice. "The monument will be erected on a square [near] the Moskva River embankment," stated the plan, sponsored by Molotov. "The said square will be enlarged by tearing down the Cathedral of Christ the Redeemer...
TIME, in a review of my Watch the North Wind Rise [March 28], states that I wrote of Christ...
...well-loved figure of Christ, securely fixed in the immemorial Stabat Mater tradition of the West, will never take that road; but is likely to assume increasing prominence, while the outrageous child continues to rampage in the East with stolen hammer & sickle...
...neglected. One of his followers, pretty, brown-haired Ann Sabljak of the Young Communist League, wriggled her way into the Methodist Episcopal Church's old Epworth League. One ex-Red remembers a Sunday night when Ann got an Epworth League discussion group around to agreeing that if Christ were alive today he would be a strike leader and a revolutionist...
Gumdrop Remembrance. Actually, frightful was the word for most of it, and the worst pieces were generally the ones that relied on ideas instead of shapes. (Low point: a head of Christ with a crown of bona fide barbed-wire thorns and chandelier pendants for tears.) But the abstractions seemed little better: Theodore Roszac's spiny steel Recollection of the Southwest looked no more handsome than a broken bedspring, and Leo Amino's colored plastic Remembrance of Things Past might have been mistaken for a highly original gumdrop display. Such eccentric exhibits made the few conservative examples...