Word: christe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Script of Christ, which for some reason seems to have been dictated in the inspirational style of the late Aimee Semple McPherson. In the other, the book's title piece, Shelley proclaims the news that "GOD IS." There is also a sort of undertaker's garland of poems written since Shelley "passed over." Many of them, like From the Death of the Skylark, are unfortunately fragments. Sample...
...oldest agricultural village in the world, recently discovered (see map). Its ruins, presumably about 8,000 years old, lay near Hassuna, about 250 miles from Baghdad. The mud-brick houses had rooms some seven feet square. Mixed in the debris were fragments of jars moulded 6,000 years before Christ. In graves lay remains of people not unlike modern...
...Titian: Christ Crowned with Thorns at about...
Next to Corcovado Mountain (topped by a giant, illuminated Christ in concrete), the most spectacular sight in Rio is busty, bediamonded Gabriella Besanzoni Lage, an ex-opera singer. Last week these two spectacles got together...
...while the crowd waited an hour for Gabriella to arrive (by limousine), a vendor did a bang-up business in sandwiches and bananas. Then the cloud curtain parted. A brilliant sun laid Rio bare and dazzling, 2,300 ft. below. Madame Lage strode on stage. Beneath the statue of Christ the Redeemer, a priest intoned a short service. In 15 minutes, it was all over...