Word: fathers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Very much the family man, Artist Bohrod just after his son's birth painted a store sign, "Bohrod & Son. Est. 1934," into a picture. Curly-headed Son Mark is now saving pennies to buy his father a paint brush for his birthday. A highlight of the current show is Still Life with Ferdinand, the toys Mark chose when Aaron asked him what he would like in a picture. Friends have interpreted it as an allegory of the Spanish civil war: the straw general on horseback towering over the pacifist bull Ferdinand, war's destruction symbolized by the torn...
...times in longhand. Pope Pius XII made some final corrections, sent the document off to the Vatican printers. It was his first encyclical, long delayed by the seismic events of World War II. Non-Catholics as well as Catholics waited to hear it as the keynote of the Holy Father's reign. Two days later the encyclical, entitled, from its first two words, Summi Pontificatus ("Of the Supreme Pontificate"), was released to the world...
Said the Holy Father: "A full statement of the doctrinal stand to be taken in the face of errors today, if necessary, can be put off to another time less disturbed by calamitous external events"-an indication that after the war he might call an ecumenical council to define such errors. In continuation of the policies of his predecessor, Pius XII identified as errors: 1) racism, and 2) totalitarianism. Of the first: "The Church of Christ . . . cannot, and does not, think of deprecating or disdaining the particular characteristics which each people with jealous and intelligible pride cherishes...
...Melvyn Douglas) smart bachelor apartment, Ninotchka shocks his staid old butler by asking, "Does he beat you?" and by urging that all wealth be shared equally. As the butler indignantly refuses to share his lifetime savings with his bankrupt employer, she says: "Run along to bed, little father." When the Count makes love to her while a traffic cop is tooting his whistle, grimly scientific Ninotchka asks: "What is the interval between his whistles?" Her disintegration begins when she discards her semimilitary outfit, buys the most becoming hat she can find, which looks like a horse's nose...
...picture knuckles down to entertaining. Joel (wistful, youthful John Beal) is leader of the Zealots, a Jewish revolutionary society. He has three problems: i) to defeat the Romans; 2) to win languid Tamar (Marjorie Cooley) who seems a little puzzled by all the excitement; 3) to convince his father, Rabbi Lamech (Maurice Moscovich), that it is better to free the Jews than to read the Talmud. The arrival of Jesus of Nazareth solves all these problems by teaching him a higher law than the sword...