Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Maudlin or Morbid. Pope turned a searing blast of his flamethrower on the out-and-out secular as well as the bogus Christian. "If you give nearly eighty percent of your time to entertainment and two percent to religion, the implications of that fact are not lost on the public ... If religious programs are often maudlin, a high percentage of the other programs is simply morbid...
Last week the local Christian Science reader, Mrs. Kenneth Overton, who had been holding lunchtime sessions with three pupils, notified Superintendent Hendricks that she was withdrawing from the program on advice from her church's headquarters in Boston. But Superintendent Hendricks and his friends in Bangor were undismayed. Says Hendricks: "We're not particularly concerned with the outside opposition . . . We're going right ahead...
...sees it, the 20th century U.S. is a soggy butt end of western civilization, an age of publicity and duplicity in which the phonies have inherited the earth. Pronouncing a scarcely original, but nevertheless grandiose, anathema, he finds everyone corroded through the decline of love and the absence of Christian faith. Rangy in setting (New England, Greenwich Village, Paris, Spain, Italy, Central America), aswim in erudition, semi-Joycean in language, glacial in pace, irritatingly opaque in plot and character, The Recognitions is one of those eruptions of personal vision that will be argued about without being argued away. U.S. novel...
...Gwyon, Wyatt's father, finds gin more consoling than the Protestantism he preaches. When he is not hitting the bottle, he soaks up the rites of non-Christian faiths. One Christmas he comes unhinged, proclaims the gospel of Mithra from the pulpit after sacrificing a black bull. His horrified congregation packs him off to a sanitarium calted Happymount...
Dumbarton Oaks has a library of over 48,000 volumes and much additional research material on early Byzantine and Christian art. The center was given to the University in 1940 by Mr. and Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss...