Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that the speech that William Faulkner made at Wellesley [TIME, June 22] could be translated into every language in the world, as it carries a great lesson-in fact, so great, in my humble opinion, that I can see it as an extra page to be inserted in our Christian Bible...
...York Times letters column, Old Socialist Norman Thomas found a letter from Old Philosopher Bertrand Russell defending teachers who refuse to answer the questions of congressional committees. Britain's Russell compared the teachers' stand to George Washington's disobedience of the law and to the Christian martyrs' refusal to sacrifice to the emperor. This was too much for Thomas, who this week fired off a letter of his own to the Times. Wrote...
...Would Bertrand Russell not agree that honest speech is a far better defense of civil liberty than silence plus a pleading of the Fifth Amendment? The parallel to George Washington or the Christian martyrs is imaginary...
...Another Hollywood." It was too much for 1,500 devout Greeks who call themselves Followers of St. John the Baptist and St. Athanasius. Cried their leader, Father Augustinios Kantiniotis: "Public scandals are being prepared . . . exhibitions of naked bodies . . . Paul the Apostle wrote that Christian women should 'adorn themselves in modest apparel,' but the organizers of these orgies say, 'Don't listen to Paul . . . undress yourselves . . . and become known as Miss Universe!' Greeks, war veterans, mothers and fathers, shout, 'Down with these orgies!' . . . and, with the help of Jesus Christ, we will prevent Greece...
...show includes some masterpieces which outsoar all such generalizations. Many of the best are religious in feeling and intention. Like the Christian monks of medieval Europe, Japan's Buddhist monks were often skilled artists. They kept the nation's art alive and growing in its early stages, with work that was devotional rather than self-expressive. Ascetic in the extreme, it set a tradition of simplicity which was to shape Japanese art right along. With increasing prosperity, the priests got professional artists to fill their temples with images of Buddha, his attendant deities and fierce guardian gods. Such...