Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Speaking before 20 people, he criticized the Administration for "un-Christian" behavior in "treating the religion of so many people as if it's nothing...
...fact, for Rabbi Gold the injuries of the past define the present. This leads him to the same kind of totalistic claims for redress that emanated earlier from black, leftist, and women militants. Even though Harvard today is in reality farther removed from its Christian origins than at any previous period, Rabbi Gold's militant perception of the situation causes him to view Memorial Church as standing, in his words, "in the heart of this university..." A maddening juxtaposition of the past-and-present always leads to extremist conclusions. Thus for Rabbi Gold Harvard can redress past injuries to Jews...
...have no doubt that Memorial Church--which Rabbi Gold mistakenly perceives as standing "in the heart of this university"--is one such cultural lag. After all, no small part of the national support (financial and otherwise) which sustains Harvard University is connected to this symbol of Harvard's Christian origins. This can and should be tolerated without jeopardizing the longrun dynamic of the institutional democratization of Harvard. Martin Kilson Professor of Government
Lichtenstein's prints are like medieval Christian didactic panels. They communicate instantly. Their iconography is easily recognizable, their meaning concentrated and abstracted. It is this element of caricature--caricature achieved by reducing something to its most essential and distinctive elements--that Lichtenstein is trying to isolate, detach and analyse...
...these lectures new members are slowly instructed on the beliefs of the family. Gradually, carefully, one is indoctrinated into the religion. Through Moon's interpretation of the Bible, we were made to understand that there is a God, an afterlife, and a spirit world. The religion is primarily Christian, stressing the power of Christ and the imminent second coming of the messiah. Moon's followers believe, through their understanding of Revelation and the cycles of human history, that the new messiah has arrived and, though he is never mentioned in lectures, that Reverend Sun Myung Moon is that new messiah...