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Word: ivans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Contrast the picture of courageous Bishop Ordass shown in your Oct. 22 Religion section with the pictures of Christ. I'll wager the true Christ looked more like Bishop Ordass and the Middle Ages' conception of Christ than the silly, grinning, effeminate, puffy-cheeked companion by Painter Ivan Pusecker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 12, 1956 | 11/12/1956 | See Source »

...have altered Christ's image to accord with the temper of their times and of themselves. The portraits range from the sad ascetic of the earliest 2nd century drawings through the agonized Renaissance Christ of Flemish Painter Albrecht Bouts to the smiling companion of Contemporary Ohio Painter Ivan Pusecker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Together | 10/22/1956 | See Source »

...throw off the Soviet yoke; Pedro became a big wheel in Moscow's Free Germany Committee, and later, under the name of Erno Gero, Stalin's agent in Hungary. When Tito, protected by his 33-division Yugoslav army, broke with Stalin in 1948, it was Erno Gero, Ivan Serov and a whole raft of equally ruthless, scheming and experienced Communist operators who organized the Cominform campaign of vilification and intrigue aimed at destroying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: In the Woods at Yalta | 10/15/1956 | See Source »

Meanwhile Radio Moscow reported the presence at Yalta of Premier Nikolai Bulganin and Soviet Security Boss Ivan Serov. Another satellite visitor was Hun garian Communist Erno Gero, the man who recently replaced Tito's archenemy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: The New Yalta Conference | 10/8/1956 | See Source »

Beginning in 1598, Russia came upon a "Time of Troubles" that lasted well into the next century. After the death of Ivan the Terrible's only heir, the boyar nobles chose Boris Godunov to be the next Tsar. But Boris' hesitation and uncertainty soon gave rise to the rumor that he had killed Ivan's younger brother, Dmitri, to insure his own succession. After seven years a pretender appeared, calling himself Dmitri. Aided by the continued unrest of the boyars and peasants and by a Polish army, this false Dmitri managed to defeat Boris Godunov and seize the throne before...

Author: By Jonathan Beecher., | Title: Boris Godunov | 10/1/1956 | See Source »

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