Word: crosses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...familiar succession of events came painfully alive in the mimed drama. Jesus wiping the blood from his face, writhing under the lash, stumbling beneath the weight of the cross, sweating with the pain of the nails, looked disconcertingly human. In all this abrasive immediacy, the mystery of God incarnate was largely lost, but the gain in impact was obviously a revelation to viewers. Last week, as BBC tallied up the mass of mail, Producer Michael Reddington reported that "all of it was enthusiastic, except for a few stuffy clergymen who couldn't be expected to approve...
...overcharged, e.g., for special nursing that may not be necessary. Insisting that needed economies must not lower the quality of care, Dr. Moore suggested: "Doctors and hospitals can help to reduce the cost of care by making it as efficient as possible, at the same time as Blue Cross and the insurance companies raise the proportion of their payments, so as to put medicine and the hospitals back in the black...
...minutes from Manhattan, a tall (6 ft. 1½ in.), jowly clergyman was reading to his four-year-old granddaughter Anne. In the kitchen, his wife Hilda was baking a cherry pie. It was a rare domestic interlude, for the figure in black clericals with the silver pectoral cross* is more familiar these days in Washington or London or Africa than in New Rochelle. Dr. Franklin Clark Fry is perhaps the most influential leader of world Protestantism -one of the two or three American churchmen with a wide international reputation. He is also the most powerful figure among U.S. Lutherans...
...last November Bernard Fagg, director of antiquities in Nigeria, paused on a cross-country journey to make a courtesy call on the Oni of Ife. The Oni, the Hon. Sir Adesoji Aderemi, King and spiritual leader of 4,500,000 Yoruba tribesmen, was delighted by the visit. An hour earlier, workmen, clearing a site for a new building, had uncovered a few delicately wrought bronze relics, and the Oni was eager to show them off. After one look at the find-two bronze statues, two egg-shaped staff finials, two solid brass staffs, and a decorated drinking vessel-Fagg rushed...
Member of the Wedding. In Waukesha, Wis., ex-Sheriff Michael Lombard!, charged with going easy on Dominic Picciurro's saloon, testified that he hardly knew Picciurro, would as soon have arrested him as anyone, admitted on cross examination that he was best man at Picciurro's wedding...