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...University community, the curriculum, and the teaching attitudes offer a distinctly Christian tradition. Rabbi Gold maintains, though, that the prevailing faith, not only in American universities, but in Western civilization, is not even Judeo-Christian, but Greco-Christian. How does the Jewish student, with only a poor knowledge of his own faith, fare when he meets such foreign and challenging philosophies for the first time...
...Pelissier. Belgium's King Baudouin holidayed solemnly at Cabassol with his sister Princess Joséphine-Charlotte and her husband, Prince Jean of Luxembourg. The week before, Adlai Stevenson had been playing tennis at St.-Jean-Cap-Ferrat. Moviemaker Darryl F. Zanuck and his good friend, Chanteuse Juliette Greco, were at the Hôtel du Cap in Antibes, where footfalls sink into deep carpets and almost no one goes into the water. Spain's Prince Juan Carlos handled a sailboat off Cannes; and a $215,000 jewel theft last week from the Cap-d'Antibes villa...
...everyone is committing rape." He spoke mysteriously of wanting "a dozen butcher hooks to hang a dozen capitalists." He grumbled that Archbishop Makarios was not consulting him about events in Cyprus. Stunned Greek Cypriots began getting anonymous letters denouncing the archbishop as a deserter. Grivas now rejects the Anglo-Greco-Turkish truce agreements entirely, disclosed that he has sent a secret circular advising his former EOKA terrorist lieutenants that the settlement was "against the best interests of the Greek Cypriot people." He calls for an eventual absorption of Cyprus into Greece though this would involve a breach of Greece...
...prize example of the master's ecstatic old age, and the Metropolitan's seventh El Greco. Most famous among the other six are the magnificent Portrait of Cardinal Nino de Guevara and the unique View of Toledo. The Cardinal keeps all the bloom of the painter's passion, but Toledo has suffered and so has the fabulous new Vision. One New York critic complained that the Metropolitan's restorers had understood "El Greco in terms of 20th century expressionism...
Possibly El Greco never finished the painting; possibly it has lost a section from the top. For those to whom it speaks, it is a last cry of an ancient mariner of the spirit...