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...project is sponsored by Elmbrook University Center, located halfway between the Quad and Harvard Yard. The center, which is not affiliated with Harvard, serves as both a student center and a dormitory for an organization called the Prelature of Opus Dei which strives to incorporate religion into public life. The project is all-male because Elmbrook is for men only...

Author: By Jesus I. Ramirez, | Title: Greetings From Mexico--No Surf, but Hard Work | 4/7/1988 | See Source »

...sister section of Opus Dei also sponsors a project in Mexico, Wills says, "It's simpler for me to make it single sex. There are difficulties with women as far as housing since our dorm [in Mexico...

Author: By Jesus I. Ramirez, | Title: Greetings From Mexico--No Surf, but Hard Work | 4/7/1988 | See Source »

...program has drawn criticism from some who object to its requirement that participants be men and not women. Wills says that women are not invited to participate in the program mainly because of organizational convenience. Opus Dei is organized into distinct, but equivalent sections for men and women and Elmbrook is a male branch of the organization...

Author: By Jesus I. Ramirez, | Title: Greetings From Mexico--No Surf, but Hard Work | 4/7/1988 | See Source »

...result, Zurbaran is known today by a tiny part of his output, maybe half a dozen "typical" paintings, single images of great power and reductive concentration: a Paschal lamb, the Agnus Dei, lying in darkness mutely trussed for sacrifice; or a row of clay vessels as dense and grand as architecture, ritually arranged as though on an altar. Perhaps the most remarkable of all, usually exhibited at the National Gallery in London, is the life-size kneeling figure of St. Francis in Meditation, painted at the height of Zurbaran's career, in the late 1630s. This...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: From The Dark Heart Of Spain | 10/5/1987 | See Source »

...laibon drained his Tusker and asked for another. From outside, in the failing light: "Ecce agnus Dei. Ecce qui tollit peccata mundi " ("Behold the Lamb of God. Behold Him who takes away the sins of the world.") Of course, it all works, said the laibon, irritated that the doubting question was asked. If there are sick cattle, sacrifice a sheep, and take the undigested grass found in its stomach, and stretch the skin over the & entrance to the boma. The cattle will pass beneath the skin and grass, which will draw the illness out of the cows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa | 2/23/1987 | See Source »

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