Word: christiane
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Climactic Scene. Most familiar scene to non-Mormons was Christ's crucifixion -after which, according to the Mormons, he came to America and organized his true Christian church among the Nephites (Scene XIII), who flourished for centuries before falling into wicked ways themselves and being destroyed in battle by the Lamanites. Mormon was a Nephite prophet who set down this history and God's will for the future upon golden tablets and entrusted them to his son Moroni, who buried them in the Hill Cumorah...
Opposition to the Kerala Communists mounted rapidly. Many of the student rioters were Roman Catholics (Kerala has the largest Christian population of any state in India) determined to fight Communist encroachment in the schools. Following a call for a statewide hartal, or general strike, by the Congress Party and their Socialist allies, some 10,000 dock workers left their jobs in the port of Cochin. Bazaars and factories throughout the state closed for a day. Students stayed away from school. Strikes, demonstrations and picketing erup.ted in town after town. The harried Communists, who had so often employed these same tactics...
Smiles & Hopes. For the record, non-Communist Venezuelan leaders are making mild protestations. Rafael Caldera, speaking for his Christian Socialist Copei, Democratic Action (A.D.) and the Democratic Republican Union (U.R.D.), politely turned down the idea of a Popular Front because of the Communist Party's "concept of state order and its international obligations." Last week A.D. Boss Rómulo Betancourt said that his party "does not want Communist help," and Admiral Wolfgang Larrazábal, chief of the five-man military junta, declared that he was a Roman Catholic and that "Catholicism and Communism are antagonists...
COMPOSER ERIK SATIE (1866-1925), like Rousseau, turned instinctively to the Hans Christian Andersen world in which fairy stories are meant less for children than for "unbelieving adults." Dismissing Richard Wagner's work as "sauerkraut," Satie spent his life creating tiny musical gems. To Rousseau's mannered childlike-ness, says Author Shattuck, he added a formal naughtiness that made his works almost "a fragile fabric of inanity." For Parade, a ballet on which Diaghilev, Cocteau, Picasso, Massine and Satie collaborated, he wrote a score including parts for typewriters, sirens, airplane propellers, Morse tickers and lottery wheels. An eccentric...
...producing children," summed up one delegate, "but as being bestowed with supernatural powers that make seeds and all work that passes through her hands germinate and prosper." Nevertheless, the delegates were gravely concerned about the African family system. "It is beautiful," said one woman. ''But no Christian life is possible without equality in the home...