Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...getting Veritas recognized a few years before. The letters exchanged between the two men were lengthy, heated, but always, of course, scrupulously polite. Each held to his position, but Everett was President and his view prevailed. He chortled, at the abolishment of the Veritas arms, "This fantastical and Anti-Christian Veritas seal has been removed to the forgotten corner of the records where it slept undisturbed for two hundred years...
...Family Survey of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod [Aug. 17] ... is not a "Kinsey for Lutherans." The sex question was only one in 50 that were asked. The questionnaire, as a whole, was less than a third of the entire research into historic doctrines and practices in the Christian church...
...been digging away at an even older center of religion: the temple of "the Great Gods," who were old when Greece was young. Their headquarters was on the Aegean island of Samothrace, and their "mystery" (basically a worship of fertility) began before Homeric times and lasted into the Christian period...
...never pretended to be an expert actor, but his pleasantly relaxed personality and obvious sincerity serve him well. Even when his lines are read without all the emotion they call for, Bing somehow remains true to the spirit of the film. As the boy, ten-year-old Christian Fourcade, a French child actor with, happily, no suggestion of the professional about him, has the delicate, transient quality of a sprite face seen out of the corner of the eye; looked at directly, his charm dissolves. But he is the kind of child every motherly woman immediately wants...
...stand up . . .? Did the convicts' nonresistance to flogging or forced labor or blackmail or prostitution transform them or those who were responsible for them into better men? . . . On the contrary, it turned them into bigger brutes." Soon Chekhov was warring with every Tolstoyan tenet, particularly the idea that "Christian love was incompatible with sexual love." And just who, demanded Chekhov, were these wonderful peasants Tolstoy was always talking about? He himself had "peasant blood in my veins" and bore the marks of peasant beatings What did the count know about such things...