Word: gabriele
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Madrid's official Roman Catholic weekly ECCLESIA, the only publication in Spain that escapes government censorship, attacking the new restrictive press law proposed by Franco's Chief Censor GABRIEL ARIAS SALGADO...
...worst evils of a democratic state is public opinion. [It] must be subject to the vigilance of authority . . . Those who still clamor for so-called freedom of the press demonstrate that they are very backward people." Thus, Franco's Minister of Information Gabriel Arias Salgado explained the "philosophy" behind the proposed new press law that he was trying to have passed last week...
...portrayal as ethereal glamor queens looking pleasantly ineffectual. Though there are no masculine or feminine angels . . . (there can be distinction of sexes only where there are bodies), yet it is not correct to portray angels as women. God has revealed the angels to us in the masculine: Raphael, Michael, Gabriel. By their nature the angels are next to God. They are powerful beings. The German poet Rilke says, 'Their presence is the first degree of the terrible.' " Furthermore, great artists of the past represented angels as "unmistakably masculine and sometimes even a little muscular...
...molds were on exhibition. Considering that they were meant to be seen atop a high perch, the figures were remarkably graceful close up. Almost all were strictly realistic, but they had many touches of humor or pride. One was a soaring steed with flying mane, another a chubby Gabriel blowing a horn...
...small stone building that contains the Black Stone, said to have been given by the Angel Gabriel to Abraham...