Word: crucifixions
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...guesses that the poorhouse fair will erupt in an ugly show of violence toward Conner. Symbolically, it is the mock crucifixion of a false Christ. Hungering for the bread of understanding, the old people had been fed the cold tin plates of social progress. Updike unfolds his parable with stylistic elegance. But, too polite to talk about the sin of pride, he gradually throws away his book's sense of purpose...
Climactic Scene. Most familiar scene to non-Mormons was Christ's crucifixion -after which, according to the Mormons, he came to America and organized his true Christian church among the Nephites (Scene XIII), who flourished for centuries before falling into wicked ways themselves and being destroyed in battle by the Lamanites. Mormon was a Nephite prophet who set down this history and God's will for the future upon golden tablets and entrusted them to his son Moroni, who buried them in the Hill Cumorah...
...being unfeeling. Christ in His Crucifixion showed us how to suffer creatively. He did not claim to end suffering, nor did He bid His disciples to avoid suffering. So I repeat, I cannot establish any policy merely on whether or not it will save the human race from a period of suffering or from extinction...
...with the usual glowing tributes to the great masters, raise this question: Why does no one ever dare point to the incredible ineptitude displayed by painters who clothe their Bible-era subjects in contemporary Italian Renaissance costumes? Are critics as charitable to painters of the 19505 who produced a crucifixion scene with Roman soldiers in U.S. paratrooper garb and with either Mary in a sack dress with a poodle haircut...
...have all that is beautiful in Italy except for a few objects in Turin and Naples," Napoleon boasted. The booty kept flowing in, including such masterpieces as Veronese's Marriage at Cana, largest canvas (22 ft. by 32 ft.) in the Louvre, and Mantegna's great Crucifixion. Added to the warehouses of art confiscated during the French Revolution (including Michelangelo's marble Slaves, found in the Due de Richelieu's town house), the foreign conquests made Napoleon's Louvre the central museum for all Europe, and, incidentally, sparked a museum movement...