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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second largest religious order (largest: the Society of Jesus, membership 33,000), wound up their first convention in six years. The scene: Assisi. The 94 friars from 31 countries who met for a two-week General Chapter represented some 30,000 Franciscans, O.F.M. (Order of Friars Minor). Their garb, if not vile, was still mostly the traditional brown, rough cloth and sandals. As for their discourse, it was anything but brief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Assisi Today | 7/1/1957 | See Source »

...vacuo. But a good Othello is impossible without a good Iago, and vice versa. Alfred Drake shows here that he can excel in something besides musical comedy. He brings a welcome restrained maturity to the role, and we are spared the moustache-twirling, eyeball-rolling villain. Instead of black garb with cape, how refreshing to see Iago in a series of brown costumes! Although he occasionally indulges in too studied a pose, he handles his lines with nuanced variety, often spitting them out rapidly in keeping with Iago's lightning-quick intellect. But more than that, we sense the Machiavellianism...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Shakespeare's 'Othello' | 7/1/1957 | See Source »

...Mount Koya, south of Osaka in Japan, are scores of ancient temples and pilgrim hostels that make up the spiritual center of the influential Buddhist sect called Shingon-shu. Last week the shaven-pated monks of Shingon-shu climbed out of their black robes into a strange new garb called a baseball uniform, began pitching a stitched leather ball around and swinging at it with a wooden club called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Priestly Duty | 6/24/1957 | See Source »

...Divinty School) says, "This is the day of the Church, a dangerous day--when everyone speaks well of you. We at Harvard must be there with a word of warning and a word of encouragement." This is the text below of a benevolent picture of the Dean, in ministerial garb, with the caption, 'WE AT HARVARD.' That the Dean speaks for every one is borne out by such observations in the article as, "This rebirth of the Divinity School has been felt throughout the Harvard Yard...

Author: By David M. Farquhar, | Title: Newsweek's 'Religion in Our Colleges' | 4/24/1957 | See Source »

Harvard, to d'Entreves, is a bit of home. He feels that the University has preserved some European strands, and, in America, is closest to European "congeniality." "I am completely lost in New York," he confesses. Although gowns are not worn here, the Professor quotes the Italian proverb, "The garb doesn't make the friar." Harvard's liberal spirit and conservative facade make this University comfortable and familiar to d'Entreves...

Author: By Robert H. Neuman, | Title: European Out of Context | 2/7/1957 | See Source »

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