Word: christe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With ups and downs, Alfred Nash Patterson and his ambitious Polyphonic Choir of Christ Church have been presenting rarely sung sacred music. Such a group is much needed in a community which spends most of its efforts on Bach's B-Minor Mass and Beethoven's Missa Solemnis. They were particularly welcomed Monday night when they gave Mozart's Great Mass in C Minor in its first Boston performance in Trinity Church. The crow which filled every seat and stood in every open space made this pretty clear...
...with 172 votes, just ahead of Talleyrand and Metternich. Others who made the all-star list: Mohandas K. Gandhi (with 103 votes), Frederick the Great (55), Disraeli (43), Lenin and Caesar (33), Francisco Franco (24), Marx (11), and Truman (7). Clement Attlee got one vote-three less than Jesus Christ...
...practical eye of Jesus Antonio Molina Vega, an architect and contractor, Colombian religious art seemed decadent. He thought he could do better. Three years ago, in his native city of Neiva (pop. 35,000), he started work on a statue of Christ...
Again the high priest asked him, and said unto him, Art thou the Christ, the Son of the Blessed? And Jesus said, I am . . . Then the high priest rent his clothes, and saith, What need we any further witnesses? Ye have heard the blasphemy: what think ye? And they all condemned him to be guilty of death...
...petitioner was a sandy-haired Dutch Protestant named Henri A. Robbe Groskamp. No scholar, Groskamp first became interested in Christ's trial through reading religious books in his mother's library while he was hiding out from the Germans during the occupation. In the end he began to feel that he was divinely inspired to do something about it. Groskamp first appealed to the World Council of Churches meeting in Amsterdam last summer; then he lodged his carefully drawn legal brief with the Supreme Court of Israel...