Word: popes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Munsey's customers are any indication, manyloved ones will receive pope-up-cards and cherubhat boxes this Valentine...
...Pope Professor of the Latin Language andLiterature R.J. Tarrant said his approach to thematerial covered in Literature and Arts C-61, "TheRome of Augustus," is appealing to students...
...SPEECH TO A FEW DOZEN STUDENTS at Kean College in Union, New Jersey, Khalid Abdul Muhammad, a senior official with the Nation of Islam, got thousands of people mad. He called Jews "hook-nosed, bagel-eatin', lox-eatin' " imposters. He attacked Catholics: "The old no-good Pope . . . somebody need to raise that dress up and see what's really under there." Gays: "God does not name holy books after homosexuals." And even other blacks, including Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates: "Who let this Negro out of the gate...
...overpowering was its impact that Pope Paul III, upon first seeing it, sank to his knees and murmured, "Lord, charge me not with my sins when thou shalt come on the Day of Judgment." Since being unveiled in 1541, Michelangelo's Last Judgment has been revered for its towering spiritual strength and enduring symbolism. The 40-by-45-ft. fresco on the west altar wall of the Sistine Chapel, on which Michelangelo labored for five years, is also a searing, unsparing personal document -- both of the unsettled world in which Michelangelo lived and of the artist's inner torment...
...exclusive selection of photographs on these pages provides the first extensive look at the newly cleaned Last Judgment, which will go on view in April at an Easter week Mass celebrated by Pope John Paul II. Its return to the public realm in dramatically improved condition will be an important event for both art and religion. Notes Kathleen Weil-Garris Brandt, a New York University art historian who has followed the project: "Our idea of what art tells us about God is shaped by Michelangelo more than anyone else, and by the Last Judgment more than any of his other...