Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Church of the Annunciation in Nazareth is one of the great rallying places of the Christian world, but for the last 24 years its local parishioners, the Christian Arabs of Nazareth, have been badly divided. In 1928, one of the Franciscan monks at the Annunciation was charged with building a new wing to the adjoining monastery. In a slight dispute, he fired one of the stonecutters. Angered, the 29 other stonecutters quit. When the monks still refused to reconsider, 600 other Nazarenes joined in protest. They refused to set foot in their church again, until their stonecutter was reinstated...
...Arms, by Evelyn Waugh. An increasingly serious satirist turns to World War II for a theme and a Christian gentleman for a hero; the first volume of a trilogy (TIME...
...Hans Christian Andersen. Producer Sam Goldwyn's lavish musical fairy tale about Denmark's great spinner of fairy tales; with Danny Kaye, French Ballerina Jeanmaire (TIME...
...Hans Christian Andersen, Sam Goldwyn's bid for every Oscar in the Academy's trophy case...
...against the romantic line in Behind-the-Iron-Curtairi Czechoslovakia. Viveca Lindfors is an unglamorous Prague secretary who stomps about dressed in what appears to be an old burlap bag, and whose clod of a boy friend woos her with gifts of herring. But soon a handsome comrade (Paul Christian), just returned from attache duty in the United States, shows up and starts to shower her with such capitalistic blessings as nylons, lipstick and champagne. He also offers her a bubble bath and a low-cut evening gown from Saks Fifth Avenue...