Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Medieval Spain had been the most tolerant land in Europe. There, Christian, Mohammedan and Jew had lived side by side in peace and, sometimes, in the closest friendship. Christian had fought Christian in alliance with Mohammedan. The proudest Christian families in Spain had intermarried with Jews; and Hebrew blood flowed in the veins of the greatest prelates in the land...
Ethnically Syria is a melting pot of Arab, Kurd, Turcoman, Circassian, Armenian and a score of forgotten peoples, but of its 3,900,000 inhabitants 86% are Moslem. Besides orthodox Moslems, there are Jews, five major varieties of Christian, a sprinkling of devil worshipers and 117,000 Druses, hard-bitten mountaineers who hate Christians, are free to ignore Moslem fasts and believe that an 11th century Egyptian caliph was the last incarnation...
Crucial Insight. Though liberal-arts education can never be completely Christian, or Christian education wholly liberal, said Princeton Historian E. Harris Harbison, a Presbyterian, the two are really indispensable to each other. "The goal of the liberal arts is to provide hindsight and foresight [in] this universe of things and events; the part of Christian belief is to provide insight, [which] is of crucial significance for living . . . William James remarked . . . 'When we see all things in God and refer all things to Him, we read in common matters superior expressions of meaning . . .' Here is the essence...
Indeed, said Jesuit John Courtney Murray, "the first church-related school [founded by Origen in the 3rd century] came into being in answer to an inner need of the human spirit as it was caught in the clashing encounter between Christianity and all the knowledge symbolized by the Alexandrian Museum. This encounter is permanently joined, for 'the Museum' is a permanent institution, and so too is the Church . . . What the human spirit endowed with Christian faith permanently needs is that these two knowledges should be related in a universe of intellectual order . . . The Christian school therefore undertakes...
...shrewd combination of Dr. Christian. David Harum and Tugboat Annie, Ma is "the conscience of her community" and trusts folks "till that trust is violated." Soap operaddicts feel that her show is a pleasant extension of the ancient art of storytelling, and offers helpful hints to daily living. Her detractors find it tired bilge, intensifying human frustration in its calculated attempts to bring temporary relief by dredging emotional sewers...