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Douglas novel about the life of Christ and a man whose life was radically changed by the sacred garment Christ wore to his Crucifixion. The sponsor, Ford Motor Co., gives everyone an added Easter present by settling for only one commercial break...
...classes using the new catechism, children are handed paper and crayons, are encouraged to draw their own conceptions of what they learn, such as Mary Magdalen's joy on Easter when she finds Jesus living, or what the Crucifixion was like. Instructors are warned that "fear is a bad educator"; thus sin should be presented not as "a 'stain' or spot" on the soul but as the act of a person who says...
Stark Mortality. Romanesque art gradually came to express a sense of impending doom. In some works, God became a magistrate of man's fate. The Last Judgment replaced the Crucifixion as a popular subject. In a fragment of a 12th century tympanum, or semicircular panel atop a doorway, the Apostles appear garbed in ordinary robes, looking toward the missing figure of God. The significance lies in the stark mortality of Matthew, Peter, Paul and John, portrayed like any common men before the terror of God. The 13th century Gothic period was more orderly than awestruck. A stained-glass lancet...
Ramparts magazine greeted the New Year with a straight left jab to the public jaw. A full-page ad in the New York Times last week featured a blowup of the January cover: a nauseous photo of a crucifixion complete with a pudgy Jesus and two U.S. infantrymen standing guard with bayonets. The magazine, which came out last week, contains what its management claims are pictures of some of the "one million children killed, wounded or burned in the war America is carrying on in Viet Nam." It also advances another conspiracy theory on the Kennedy assassination...
...that hardly ever in Western art is there a "medically accurate and scientifically serious portrayal of the event." The reason, he explains, is that the Cross itself did not become an object of veneration for pious Christians until about the 5th century-more than 100 years after Constantine abolished crucifixion from the Roman Empire as a method of capital punishment...