Word: christian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...alarmed member of Mrs. Carter's staff called up and said, "Absolutely not." It now reads, on page 120, "Carter, The President of the United States, and Mrs. Jimmy." The British Broadcasting Corp. had a policy meeting on the Jimmy issue. In broadcasting, particularly British broadcasting, Christian names stand like the Tower of London. But the BBC retreated. Whenever possible, British newscasters refer to President Carter. But now and then they must say the nickname, and when they do, according to an American-language expert just back from London, Barnard's Professor Richard Norman, they look uncomfortable...
...publicly support Egypt's move lest they weaken the broad range of contacts they have laboriously built up all across the Arab world. They now are in a position to influence such disparate and often inimical regimes as Marxist South Yemen and Somalia, Algeria and Morocco, the Christian Lebanese and the P.L.O. The Saudis hope eventually to be the effective mediator in healing the deep rift Sadat's trip has caused in the Arab world. Said Saudi Information Minister Muhammed Abdo Yamani last week: "We are trying to cool everyone down; Sadat's trip was a gesture...
...strike over grievances, the rank and file responds. "By God, it will be done!" bellowed Adkins before he and fellow miners walked out of the pits last week. "I believe in this union, and I'll give up Christmas and a lot more for it." Adds Rick Christian, 21, father of three: "I'll stay out till she freezes over...
From the 7th through 12th centuries, medieval Spain, isolated on the Iberian peninsula, developed an artistic tradition distinct from the rest of Europe's. Visigoth and Muslim influences brought a pagan exoticism to Spain's Christian art, particularly in illuminated manuscripts. Early Spanish Manuscript Illumination by John Williams (Braziller; 119 pages; $19.95 hardcover, $9.95 paper) provides illuminations of its own, offering plates from such works as the Beatus Commentary on the Book of Revelation that dazzle the reader with apocalyptic visions of weeping angels and rapacious beasts, saints and sinners, heaven and hell...
Lewis, an Anglican, has always had a following among Roman Catholics. But the major Lewis shrine exists at a collection on British Christian writers (including Tolkien and Dorothy Sayers) at Wheaton College in Illinois, a staunchly Evangelical Protestant school. In Curator Clyde S. Kilby's vault are many unpublished Lewis treasures: boyhood writings, diaries and 1,000 of his letters, including lifelong correspondence with Arthur Greeves, a friend from his Belfast youth...