Word: christianly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...company president; reportedly he backed away, declaring Michiko's personality "too cold." Michiko seems to have been drawn to a Japanese diplomat and was disappointed when he was sent to a post in Europe. He wrote her long, graceful letters dealing mostly with the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen, at a time when she was reading Steinbeck and Faulkner. Asked Michiko crossly: "Does he think I am still a child...
French Violinist Christian Ferras, 25, is a darkly handsome young man with a taste for driving sleek, low-slung cars around the Bardot-shaped coast of the French Riviera. He is also the most loudly acclaimed young violinist to emerge from France since the late Ginette Neveu, who died in a 1949 plane crash. Last week Violinist Ferras turned up in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and from the moment he launched into Brahms's familiar D-Major Concerto, it was clear that he had a blazing, romantic vision and the controlled technique...
...seaside town of Le Touquet, the son of a hotel owner who had started to be a violinist but abandoned his career when he cut his left hand on a wine bottle, severing the nerve to his little finger. Father Ferras trained his son until he was 15. Christian won a first prize at the Paris Conservatory, soon afterward made his concert debut in Paris. He has been touring steadily since (England, North Africa, South America...
Looking for something to deepen the sense of Christian solidarity on the layman's level, Cullmann was inspired by the collection St. Paul made among his missionary churches for the poor Christians in Jerusalem. This, says Cullmann, was not merely an act of charity but was intended by Paul as a "symbol of unity" between circumcised and uncircumcised, Jewish and Gentile Christians. Since unity is not possible today, the offering "would no longer be a symbol of unity, but of solidarity, of brotherhood among all who invoke the name of Christ...
...Rome, "a monk who did not make himself known placed a bank note wrapped in paper into my pocket. On my way home I discovered that the following words were scrawled on the paper: 'From a Catholic monk for a poor Protestant in Rome as a symbol of Christian solidarity.' I delivered the sum to the dean of a small Waldensian seminary in Rome ... He spoke to his students about this gift, and they, quite spontaneously, took up an offering among themselves from their modest means and sent the total to the abbot of a large cloister...