Word: lorde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...painted frames surrounding each mural) resemble Persian art of the period. But the paintings as a whole show a transition between the easeful grace of Greek and Roman art and the frozen stiffness of later Byzantine figures. Meanings are conveyed strikingly, as when "the hand of the Lord" takes the shape of several free-floating, detached hands looming above Ezekiel. The coloring is subdued, never garish, subtly harmonious...
...condemned "those in power who want to convert Cuba into a Hungary of the Antilles." The Auténtico Party, which Batista tossed out of power in 1952, blasted "the macabre spectacle of 21 Cubans slain precisely on the day of peace and Christian love, the day of our Lord's Nativity...
...Stewart to survive and keep his sanity? The loyalty of his closest buddies and a mute faith in God, best exemplified for Stewart in the selfless devotion of a priest, Father Bill Cummings, who first said, "There are no atheists in the foxholes," and who died while saying the Lord's Prayer over the dying, his very last words those of Stewart's title-"Give us this...
Before sleeping, all of the flowers in the room were "put to bed." and one blossom was selected to rest on Gabrielle's pillow. And there were prayers. Gabrielle had taught herself the Lord's Prayer from a book, and she repeated it each night as though actually thinking through the words. Like all children, says her mother, Gabrielle was "a natural believer with an enormous faith in God . . . I guess it's only as we grow older and become paved with pride and knowledge that we lose our understanding and begin to doubt and forget...
...minister of Low Hampton, N.Y., was not an educated man, but he was sincere and persuasive; when the dread year came, Millerites from Vermont to Virginia settled their affairs and waited. Scoffers made fun of them by donning white robes and climbing trees and hilltops to look for the Lord's coming, and when the appointed time had passed and the earth was still the same, they jeered...