Word: christian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nothing like it had been seen in the majestic shadow of the Roman Forum since Brutus stabbed Julius Caesar on the Ides of March. One hundred yards from the spot where Caesar fell, divorced* Tyrone Power married a Hollywood starlet named Linda Christian in the Church of Santa Francesca Romana...
...time, things began to change around St. Albans. The school kept strictly to its Episcopal curriculum: daily chapel, courses in Christian ethics, sacred studies, and a thorough study of the Old and New Testaments. But the beltings stopped, and no one tried to run away any more. St. Albans doubled in size (351 students), became the top boys' prep school in Washington, where the sons of diplomats and Senators went...
Abstractions In Canterbury. The earliest of the manuscripts, dating from the dark ages of Europe, had been strongboxes of Christian culture. Done mostly on calfskin parchment and laced with burnished gold and rainbow colors, they had kept fresh and shining through the centuries. One of them, an 8th Century psalter believed to have been made by the monks of Canterbury, was decorated with twining capital letters as abstract and whimsically complicated as any paintings produced today. Another, dating from the early 9th Century in France, was a book of the four Gospels written entirely in gold on pages dyed purple...
...Basic Question? The conservative Episcopal weekly, the Living Church, editorialized: "Are there any limits upon the right of a clergyman to engage in political action? Yes, we think there are; because his main duty is to teach the Christian religion . . . The basic question . . . is not freedom of speech . . . but the spiritual health and welfare of the congregation." The leftist Churchman fulminated against "the fear-ridden vestry." With a perfectly straight face, the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship expressed its "amazement" and "shock...
Association of Groundhog Day with Candlemas stems from the ancient belief, widespread throughout the superstitious Christian world, that a sunny February 2 is a sure forecast of a cold spring. As the canny Scotch put it. "If Candlemas be fair and clear, there'll be two winters in the year...