Word: paganism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...central panel, "Time Abducting Beauty," is a paragon of Tiepolo's pagan allegories rich with Olympian overtones. Unquestionably it is the best Tiepolo in Britain, Carritt said, but despite popular demand, the public will not see it. At week's end TJ.A.R.'s President Gamal Abdel Nasser ordered his London embassy to have the Tiepolo paintings dismantled and shipped to Cairo. Nasser's reported plan: to exhibit them in the Egyptian capital, then offer them for sale to the world's museums. Said a curator of Britain's National Gallery...
...Time for Christian Candor. He argues that the church keeps the treasure of its revelation in "earthly vessels," and that it is idolatry to accept as eternally true what is only historically conditioned. He suggests that Christianity abandon the notion of the Trinity, which has now become a pagan tritheism instead of what the church fathers intended to say. To avoid confusion of the "packaging" with the "product," Pike would do away with all spatial images of God, everything that suggests a distinction between the sacred and the secular...
...teen-age daughter, Cheryl, killed her mother's lover. Producer Joseph E. Levine has dressed it up as what used to be called "a woman's picture." Amidst sumptuous settings, supposedly inhabited by the haut monde of San Francisco, Heroine Susan Hayward plays a world-famous "sculptor, pagan, alley-cat" who detests her domineering mother (Davis), betrays her war-hero husband, unwittingly snares a gigolo with her daughter until one calamitous night when the kid picks up a chisel and . . . What follows is a custody battle, some gamy dialogue, and numerous untidy revelations, none of them very interesting...
Died. Nacio Herb Brown, 68, composer of such enduring Tin Pan arias as You're an Old Smoothie, Singing in the Rain, Pagan Love Song and Should I Reveal?; of cancer; in San Francisco...
JULIAN, by Gore Vidal. A voluminous, fascinating historical novel, well researched, yet remaining oddly dispassionate and at one remove from the vibrant and youthful Roman emperor whose turbulent, 18-month reign marked the last conflict in the Western world between pagan Hellenism and early Christianity...