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...school grew and grew. When she died in 1900, a Boston newspaper glowed that Miss Porter "gave to hundreds of the best born women of the land that poise and stability of character, that combination of learning and good manners which is the mark of the noblest American womanhood." Miss Porter's confers those qualities to this day, and it slipped out last week that the school has an application on file for 1972 or so from the first young lady of the land, Caroline Bouvier Kennedy...
Instead of starting with a defense of dogma, liberal theology stressed the need for man to respond emotionally to the Jesus of history. Liberalism believed that religion was an expression of man's noblest impulses and that man himself had the freedom to shape his life and his world in accordance with the divine will. Faith in God was made to seem perfectly compatible with an industrial civilization's faith in science, progress and democracy; church and state would work hand in hand for man's final victory over nature, and the eventual establishment of the Kingdom...
...version of the legend. Inevitably, the picture is colossal-it runs three hours and 15 minutes (including intermission), cost $6,200,000, employs an extra-wide widescreen, a special color process, 7,000 extras, 10,000 costumes, 35 ships, 50 outsize engines of medieval war, and four of the noblest old castles in Spain: Ampudia, Belmonte, Peñiscola and Torrelobaton. Surprisingly, the picture is good-maybe not as good as Ben-Hur, but anyway better than any spectacle since Spartacus (TIME...
...paintings and frescoes covered the walls of some of Europe's noblest palaces, from the Archbishop's Palace in Udine to the Prince-Bishop's Residenz in Wiirzburg to the throne room of King Charles III in Madrid. No man of his time was a greater master of drama and color, or knew so well how to unlock the secrets of light or to harmonize painting and architecture. Though he was sometimes guilty of slickness, his best paintings still stun the eye. He was the last of the great baroque artists, and it was not until just...
...Buddhists in separatist-minded Karen and Shan states. But the amendment passed by a landslide 324-to-28 vote. Before he left for the neutralist meeting in Belgrade, ascetic Prime Minister U Nu, who three years ago took the vows of a Buddhist monk, pronounced the decision "the noblest deed, the greatest deed for Buddhists...