Word: matthew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grandfather than her husband! Thinking Christians now reject the apocryphal fables that represented him as a widower of 80 or 90 when "miraculously" chosen to be the "guardian" of Mary. Such stories may be facile explanations for Mary's perpetual virginity and the brothers and sisters of Jesus (Matthew: 13:55), but they are unrealistic and unnecessary...
...Kappa today announced the Senior Sixteen for the Class of 1962. The are: Mitchell H. Gail, Leverett and Lexington, Ky., Biochemical Sciences; David I Lieberman, Lowell and South Orange, N. J., Mathematics; Bishop C. Hunt, Jr., Eliot and Boston, History and Literature; Paul R. Chernoff, Lowell and Philadelphia, Mathematics; Matthew D. Edel, Leverett and Jamaica, N.Y., History; Carl D. Elligers, Lowell and Brooklyn, Government; and Rodney H. Merrill, Lowell and Idaho Falls, Idaho, History and Literature...
...venerate the Virgin Mary as the mother of Christ and the Queen of Heaven, second only to the Trinity. But her husband, Joseph, who apparently died before Christ began his ministry, is a forgotten man, fleetingly celebrated as a good carpenter and notably understanding husband. Though the Gospel of Matthew accords Joseph rather than Mary the honor of hearing the Annunciation from the angel of the Lord, St. Joseph is not even named in the liturgy of the Mass, which so honors 27 other saints. Last week a widespread campaign was under way to remedy this omission; sent to every...
...Matthew Gorer is a painter, but there has been no one like him since Joyce Gary's Gulley Jimson. Savage, idealistic, scruffy and lecherous, Gorer is at once a fiercely dedicated man with the humility of a prostrate priest and the arrogance that the world imposes on a neglected seer...
...Maggots. Haled into court for fraud, Matthew Gorer does not defend himself; instead, he lectures the court and the public on the arid conventionality of a society that accepts art only if it has been certified by recognized authorities. "So to show you what's going on I set about painting a picture which everyone would praise without fail, for all the wrong reasons. I wanted to show up the pundits and the cranks, the speculators and the snobs, the whole bunch of maggots...