Word: christe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Zinn has decided that he can ignore Oliver Cromwell's eloquent plea: "In the bowels of Christ, I beseech you, bethink you that you may be mistaken...
...Pius II-who wrote his own treatise on venery under his Christian name, Aeneas Silvius-all enthusiastically rode to hounds. And while papal edict forbade monks to hunt, the church gave its blessing to the chase by proclaiming Hubert, the 8th century Bishop of Liege who saw Christ's image on a stag's brow, its patron saint...
...question but that many officers acted without restraint and exerted force beyond that necessary under the circumstances." As his policemen went out of control that night, the deputy superintendent in charge had to pull berserk officers off battered and bruised demonstrators, shouting at them: "Stop, damn it, stop! For Christ's sake, stop it!" The report confirms the earlier impression that the Chicago police force-in Mayor Daley's celebrated euphemism-"overreacted." But it also stresses the provocations they suffered and records some examples of police restraint...
When Lyndon Johnson attended Mass at St. Matthew's Cathedral recently, Washington's Patrick Cardinal O'Boyle referred to the President in his sermon as "the chief ecumenist in this ecumenical age." Although a member of the Disciples of Christ, Johnson has worshiped at Roman Catholic, Episcopal, Christian and Lutheran churches as the spirit moves him. Religiously speaking, things will not change much in January. Richard Nixon belongs to the Society of Friends, but he has spent his Sunday mornings at a wide variety of Protestant churches...
...greatest paintings in the Western world," wrote Critic Pierre Schneider. "After the great Christ paintings of the Renaissance, this is the first nonreligious painting of an expiatory personage, a self-sacrifice figure." Adds Critic Andre Chastel, "Gilles has a poetic charm akin to Shakespeare. In fact, every time I look at it, I am reminded of Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream...