Word: crosses
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Djilas' attack came at a moment when Yugoslavia was astir with cold cross winds. Since Stalin's death, there has been a guarded renewal of relations between Belgrade and some Cominform capitals. Yugoslavia has renewed full diplomatic relations with Russia. Might Tito, the black-sheep Communist, return to the fold now that there was a change of shepherds? The State Department does not think he dares go back; the British only last week showed their belief in his continuing an tipathy for Moscow by granting Tito's regime another...
...National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis plans to begin intensive field trials of its new polio vaccine in 200 or more selected counties in the U.S. (TIME. Nov. 23). Last week Illinois health officials said that the Illinois counties so favored might have to beg off. Director Roland R. Cross of the Illinois Department of Health, acting on the recommendations of a technical advisory committee, refused to permit the trials "until further proof of the safety and effectiveness of the vaccine has been received...
Death is no stranger to the Rev. Julius Busse, onetime superior of Detroit's Monastery of St. Paul of the Cross. As chaplain with the 7th Division, through five invasions in the South Pacific during World War II, Kansas-born Father Busse was wounded once and several times had bullets rip his clothes. One day he gave the last rites to 60 Roman Catholic soldiers. When the war was over, Major Busse had a Silver Star and a Bronze Star for gallantry...
...show contained only jewels. Among the most brilliant: Vincent Van Gogh's great, glowing Le Cafe de Nuit, done in heavy, vibrant greens, yellows and reds; Rembrandt's beatific St. James, in which the praying saint appears surrounded by a holy presence; El Greco's bearded, cross-bearing St. Andrew, done in contrasting hues of grey, blue and green. The El Greco, now shown in the U.S. for the first time, is one of the most important acquisitions made since...
...Philosopher Jacques Maritain once remarked, "ought to be religious." That limits the field to those few modern artists who feel the need to express their religious faith. On this and the following page are recent works by two such skilled and devout moderns. The mosaic Station of the Cross (above] was done for Mt. Angel Abbey at St. Benedict, Ore. by a 55-year-old Californian named Louisa Jenkins. The stained-glass Sermon from the Boat (overleaf) is a replica detail of a window in St. Ann's Chapel of Stanford University at Palo Alto, Calif., designed by School...