Word: christe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...made students feel that they were discovering new information and that they had something new to contribute," said Nannette M. Christ '93, a former student of Vail...
...what must have been one of the great 13th century Italian altarpieces. It is the work of an unidentified Umbrian artist known only as the Master of St. Francis, and it shows a decided breakaway from Byzantine conventions in the modeling of its figures. In its scene of Christ's deposition from the Cross, the figure of the Saviour bends into an extraordinary U of anguish, pathetic but tense, as though he were about to spring back into life...
...spectacle of the concentrated, disciplined labor that went into building a tiny sarcophagus out of gold and rock crystal to house a brown bit of human tissue that may or may not have been part of St. Vitus, or a supposed rag off the "seamless robe" worn by Christ at his Crucifixion. Seven hundred years ago, of course, it was the relic itself that really counted, that was "precious" and "unique"; the roles of container and content have reversed...
...Serbian brand of malignant nationalism should not be tolerated. Clinton is right to identify it as a danger and move against it. I only wish he and NATO had acted more swiftly. JANE CHRIST Basel, Switzerland JOHN MCCAIN'S KOSOVO POLICY
...brothers and sisters, it's time to go down town. Jesus Christ went down town. He hung around uptown for 33 years and they didn't even notice him, and then he went down town and they killed him in a week. You can't go back, you got to take them downtown...