Word: christe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...once ordered sections deleted from Cecil B. de Mille's The King of Kings, because they showed the crucifixion and whipping of Christ. Movies discussing or starring Negroes have been ruthlessly excluded or edited, including Imitation of Life, Sensations of 1945, Brewster's Millions (TIME, April...
Confederacy endorsed The Southerner as portraying "courage, stoutheartedness and love of the land." The Memphis Commercial Appeal editorialized: "Under Mr. Binford's reasoning, few of the great reformers of history would have been allowed to write and speak. Jesus Christ, Himself, on occasion shocked and shamed people to better things...
...picture at Harvard has largely been shelved because its two star attractions would not be available. Roland Sink, hailed by some sport writers as better than Gil Dodds, has been dropped out of the Midshipmen Supply School, and Dodds himself has heavy weekend speaking schedules for the Youth for Christ movement...
...master picture-forger was one Hans van Meegeren, a little-known Dutch artist. Although he worshiped Adolf Hitler, he felt no compunction about unloading a fake on fellow Nazi Hermann Göring. Göring got Christ and the Adulteress in a trade for 173 paintings. One revealing way in which Master-Painter Van Meegeren overshot the mark was by producing so many Vermeers on religious subjects; of all the genuine Vermeers known, the only one that is religious in theme is the Edinburgh National Gallery's Christ with Mary and Martha...
Conscientious objection (refusal to participate in war) is nothing new in the U.S. There were C.O.s in both the Revolution and the Civil War, when members of Christian groups like the Quakers, Mennonites and Brethren, in the belief that Christ commanded Christians not to kill, refused to fight in armies. In World War II the attitude toward C.O.s and their treatment has been enlightened. The Selective Service Act makes only two conditions for conscientious objection: 1) the C.O. must be opposed to "participation in war in any form"; 2) his scruples must come from "religious training and belief...