Word: christly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eight lower panels show the deaths of heroes of the Old and New Testaments. In the upper panels, death gives way to holy triumphs. Italian saints are ranged below the Ascension of Christ, and such heroic martyrs as Joan of Arc witness the Assumption of the Virgin into Heaven...
...cinemactor (Cleopatra), more recently a topnotch director (Martin Luther); of a heart ailment; in La Canada, Calif. After the success of Luther, Pichel went on to a more difficult subject, a week before his death completed Day of Triumph, the first full-length film on the life of Christ since Cecil B. DeMille's 1927 King of Kings...
...finds a pet in a green parrot. After a few years the parrot dies too, and Felicité has it stuffed. Time robs the old lady of her hearing, dims her eyesight and addles her mind, so that sometimes she kneels in prayer before a color picture of Christ, sometimes before the stuffed parrot. As she lies in bed, half-crazed, alone, and dying, Felicité's last earthly vision is of a huge parrot hovering over her head. Flaubert keeps cool about all this, but his evocative prose keens a universal dirge for the lonely, desolate humans...
enter into any organization in which the delegates of many sects sit down in council or conference as equals to discuss the nature of the Church of Christ or the nature of her unity ... or to formulate a program of united Christian action. She does not allow her children to engage in any activity . . . based on the false assumption that Roman Catholics, too, are still searching for the truth of Christ." "Negative & Defensive." The cardinal's letter raised some Protestant eyebrows. It seemed to leaders of the World Council to be a reversal of earlier positions assumed by European...
...breakdown of art in modern times. It is so bad that a mere wooden bowl becomes, in this exhibition, a piece of sculpture, while entanglements of wires are considered statues." But what riled the Vatican most were the few paintings dealing with sacred subjects, one of which showed Christ as a skeleton. "It is sad," the article concluded, "that in Catholic Venice, full of Christian beauty, works by presumably Christian artists would turn out to be an outrage to the dignity of Christian life...