Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...salute ushered in the sunrise across the eucalyptus-covered hills around Ethiopia's capital of Addis Ababa. In St. George Cathedral more than 100 stocking-footed priests of the Coptic Christian Church began their matins to the booming rhythms of a throbbing bass drum and the jangle of silver rattles. In the streets thousands of adoring subjects set up a howling cry of greeting for Emperor Haile Selassie, the Conquering Lion of Judah, Elect of God and 225th in a long line of Ethiopian emperors who traced their ancestry back to the Queen of Sheba herself. A moment later...
...Nicaea and the Diet of Worms.) Last week, in reprinting Martin's most recent final, the Amherst Alumni News provided readers with a thought-provoker and argument-starter of uncommon ingenuity. As the exam question continues, the beer-guzzling Wise Guy gives this racy history of the Christian faith...
...Thomas Aquinas worked out "an amazing rationalization of Christian dogmas in which he convinced the scholars of Christendom that philosophy and science are not dangerous if they are not taken too seriously, and that Christian theology is based solely on the superior truths of revelation, which must be accepted in blind faith...
...true that many intelligent people of good will now think that man must rely entirely on himself, his science, etc. to improve his lot. I am inclined to think that way myself. But I think we have much to learn from the traditional Christian view of man and his destiny, and I now wonder whether it may not be more profound than the liberal humanism I've learned from my parents...
...Died. Christian Dior, 52, pink, plump world-fashion dictator, designer of the New Look (1947) and the Flat Look (1954), supporter pf the Sack Look (1957); of a heart attack while playing cards on vacation in Montecatini, Italy. At 30 he launched his career as assistant to such shapemakers as Robert Piguet and Lucien Lelong. After the war French Textile Mogul Marcel Boussac backed Dior, and a year later the designer had made fashion history, to remain fashion's tireless (13 hours a day) kingpin ever since, the much-publicized cause of the rise and fall of bosoms...