Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...though Christian Dior had offered to hand out his latest models on a Paris street corner. There lay a treasure trove of odhnis. the gaily colored lengths of cloth that northwest India's women wear over their heads-when they can afford them. Many women wear them only on their wedding day, then carefully put them away for future generations. Every Bhil woman would get one, announced Tantia, if she would swear by Kaladev that she would never hide her face again...
...Keep this woman off the air! Britain is a Christian country." So wrote the London Daily Sketch when Psychologist Margaret Knight advised parents over BBC to straighten out their children on the "myths" of Christianity (TIME, Jan. 24 et seq.) In the current weekly Commonweal, British Correspondent Michael P. Fogarty, a Roman Catholic, argues that Mrs. Knight actually struck a blow for Christianity in Britain. He adds: "the idea that Britain is a 'Christian country' is at best a half-truth . . . There is a mass of what [have been called] 'four-wheeler Christians, people who arrive...
...said. "If one proceeds, however, from the materialistic standpoint that death from the very beginning has been a normal phenomenon, belonging to human nature . . . then it is completely in line with this belief that body-burning is preferred to burial. Body-burning is a purely pagan practice, contrary to Christian usage...
Potboiler. In Toulouse, France, six years after his book, All the Earth Belongs to Us, had won the Prize of Truth, Author Christian Couderc got a five-year suspended sentence for forging evidence for his divorce trial...
...special invitation of Governor Christian A. Herter '13 and Senator Leverett Saltonstall '14, the University band will lead the Saint Patrick's Day parade through Boston, March...