Word: crucifixions
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...specialist, too, but with a sense of sin and a capacity for humility and atonement: for her, salvation, no matter how arduous, will be necessary. The play ends two years later with another cocktail party, showing the Chamberlaynes adjusted and telling of Celia's death by crucifixion while working among heathen savages...
...Sever's famed carved benches will be on their way to storage too-far tradition's sake, the chewed up boards are not being thrown away. The earliest carving yet found dates to 1882; later works include innumerable Harvard-Yale game scores, incised checkerboards, and the masterpiece, an entire crucifixion scene with attendant saints...
Willie Gallacher, one of the two Communist members of the House, called this "evil, lying, propaganda" and quoted the New Testament in support of his case. He blamed the stoning of Stephen and the crucifixion of Christ on what he called "the attorney generals" of that day. David Gilbert Logan of Liverpool interrupted to assert that the persecutors of Christ and Stephen were "proper Communist gangs." Outraged members wanted to shut off Willie's blasphemy, but the speaker ruled regretfully: "I do not think there is any rule which makes it out of order, but I must...
Among the many newcomers was 41-year-old Sculptor Giacomo Manzu, who had executed a provocative bas-relief of the Crucifixion in which the traditional Roman legionary had been replaced by a gross and swaggering Nazi...
...appeals more to the mind than to the eye. He uses light bulbs in his religious paintings, Rose explains, "to represent the eternal light of Jesus Christ by something which people think of when they think of light. I wanted to get away from the historical representation of the Crucifixion to emphasize that it is something still happening...