Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Frenchman and Arab, Christian cross and Islam crescent meet in uneasy union, but with differing degrees of hostility and hope. Besides Morocco, the French holdings...
TOURISTS from the U.S., swarming through Italy this summer in greater numbers than ever, keep coming across ancient deities in Renaissance dress. Because U.S. culture has little indigenous pagan art-largely confined to Indian reservations and museums-Americans are often somewhat shocked to find pagan gods at ease in Christian churches and palaces. But the shock soon turns to delight, for Renaissance artists could make the gods seem as at home in church as children at a party, and use them for the greater glory of Christianity (see color pages...
...burial chapel in Rome's Church of Santa Maria del Popolo is obviously that the lives of men are subject to the planets, which are in turn subject to God. Raphael, who painted the pagan divinity Galatea for Chigi's palace, also made the Vatican shine with Christian and pagan subjects, depicting the company of the saints and a synod of ancient sages opposite one another, making companion pictures of the fall of Adam and Eve and the flaying of Marsyas, and facing an allegorical fresco of the three chief Christian virtues with one of Parnassus...
...boys were part of a radical Christian experiment: the East Harlem Protestant Parish. With 21 other students (twelve boys, nine girls) from Colby, Swarthmore, Colgate, Union Theological Seminary and other Eastern and Midwestern colleges, they had forsaken beach or mountains to spend their summer vacations in one of the country's most densely populated, crime-ridden areas. Their mission: to practice Christianity...
...describing the kind of delegate that the conference expected: "We also want them to be young and gay in order to demonstrate that the Y.M.C.A. is not an empty name, that we are not tiresome and boring young men . . . but that by God's grace it is our Christian faith that makes us young and happy...