Word: christly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Saint Tom Driberg's pious blather-which all but claims Jesus Christ as the founder of the British Labor Party-is, of course, so farfetched and improbable as to be beyond the reach of criticism . . . What strikes me is the omission, in his article, of the name of Tito, the avowed atheist and persecutor of the Christian Church, while it includes the name of Catholic Franco. When one recalls Britain's ardent wooing of Tito, the omission may seem to be less than accidental...
...found it surprisingly easy to get his clerical couples talking about their aggressions, repressions and sexual problems. Even a little theology was kicked around-with some of the inanity that is often a byproduct of the mixture of Scripture and Freud. One meeting considered the question of whether Jesus Christ was a masochist. (Yes, said Bob Young: he denied himself marriage and made his life one long bid for suffering. No, said the ministers: men crucified him because they were not yet ready for the Son of God and his principle of love...
...Museum showed off El Greco's magnificent, somberly calm St. Andrew.* Alongside the masterpiece, the museum displayed a fascinating find: a sheet of rare El Greco drawings in red chalk-preliminary sketches for St. Andrew and for another work (the head of a spectator in The Despoiling of Christ). For decades, the El Greco sketches had been misfiled in a British collector's album of drawings by Francisco Goya. They were picked up by Dr. William R. Valentiner, the museum's treasure hunter, for a bargain...
...Gogh sank deeper and deeper into madness, and in the end committed suicide. But he never quite lost his religious feeling, which he once expressed in a painter's evaluation of Christ: "[He was] more of an artist than all the others, disdaining marble and clay and color, working in the living flesh...
...Christ receive his crown of thorns. One wore a toothbrush mustache; the other had a jutting chin. The resemblance to Hitler and Mussolini was too close for coincidence. Explained Designer Albert Birkle: "My pencil, as if by accident, drew the image of Hitler and Mussolini on the drawing board. I find nothing disturbing in putting these two men. who killed thousands of priests and millions of Christians, among the persecutors of Christ." But Graz was disturbed. Wrote the Grazer Montag: "In a church this sort of thing has no place." Church officials decided to keep the window...