Word: christian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...came Androcles and the Lion (1911-12). For this, Shaw took his basic plot from an ancient tale related by the second-century Latin author Aulus Gellius. Shaw changed Gellius' Androclus, who was a Roman and a slave, into Androcles, who was a Greek, a tailor, and a Christian...
Herein lies the Startford production's main shortcoming. Kathleen Dabney is attractive enough in her blue toga streaked with green, but she just doesn't give evidence of meriting her position as a leader of the Christian prisoners. Her Lavinia lacks fervor and intensity; and some of her lines don't ring true...
...debauched Christian, Spintho, Richard Mathews does carry a wine pouch, but makes the character much too hale and hearty. He is supposed to have "gone helplessly to the bad," and complains, "I'm full of disease. I've drunk all my nerves away," but our eyes tell us that it just...
Revolt from Below. Since its founding, the Council has made historic contributions to the cause of Christian unity. There were 1,900 delegates and official observers at last week's event; the delegates represented 232 churches with 300 million members, a total approaching Catholicism's one-half billion adherents. Despite the difficulties of rapprochement with Rome, the Council has been instrumental in fostering an unprecedented atmosphere of contact and discussion between Protestants and Catholics. The Vatican was present at Uppsala in a message from Pope Paul expressing ecumenical affirmation, and in the form of 15 Catholics invited...
...mood of the delegates at Uppsala attested to the fact that their grand experiment in Christian action has come up against serious problems. Paradoxically, many are the result of the World Council's own visionary initiatives. A fissure has opened within the body between younger leaders, who want the Council to move more aggressively in social action, and more conservative elements. Notable on the conservative side are the Orthodox churches, most of which were admitted to the WCC at its last assembly, and whose 140 voting delegates at Uppsala (of a total of 750) represented the most powerful single...