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...amazing warmth and kindness that it has evoked has led me to really appreciate my good luck. It is heartening in this world of wars and rumors of wars, of "isms" and "anti-isms" to think that this simple story kindles so many gentle memories and friendly reactions. Easter greetings...
...cover a story as old as Easter, TIME'S Religion Editor John T. Elson flew to Basel, Switzerland, to talk to the man on this week's cover. Theologian Karl Earth. They talked, among other things, of Calvin, Mozart and Reinhold Niebuhr ("a great man. but if only he had an inner ear, through which he could hear what Mozart is saying, he wouldn't be so serious all the time"). Barth cheerfully remarked that a Barthian usually smokes a pipe; an orthodox theologian, cigars; and liberals, cigarettes. He offered Religion Editor Elson-a cigar...
...carpenter from Nazareth, condemned by the Roman Procurator of Judea and the high priest of the Jews, died upon a cross. Four historians of the time soberly reported that he was buried, and that on the third day the carpenter, Jesus, rose from the dead. Since that first Easter, his followers have defied all reason to proclaim that the Jew of Nazareth was the Son of God, who, by dying for man's sin, reconciled the world to its Creator and returned to life in his glory. Christianity has always been content to stand or fall by this paradox...
...dribbled their way all through the winter, and last week, as spring came north once more, they were still at it. The oversized pros of the National Basketball Association were playing overtime,as they went through the motions of a championship playoff that may well run on almost till Easter. Months ago, the long schedule made clear that the Boston Celtics are easily the class of the league (TIME, Dec. 22), the best at the game's swift art of dunking baskets while elbows dig and feet flail and the referee's whistle skirls its endless interruptions...
...will readily understand, the ducks have been provided to aid us in our celebration of Easter. Now, a certain element among us may proclaim that there is something wrong in this. Purists may object, on theological grounds, to the intrusion of Eastern paganism in our more or less Christian spiritual life--saying that ducklings, bunnies and the like are nowhere officially authorized as part of the Christian ceremony--but, as any child will tell you, this is a too parochial outlook, not to mention stuffy. Doubtless, a wild-eyed anti-vivisectionist or two will maintain that man herein berays himself...