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...destroy the nation's Pantheon of man-beast gods and substitute the world's first monotheistic faith: sun worship. A famed bas-relief shows Akhenaten, Nefertete and a daughter sacrificing to the sun god (see cut). Unfortunately, soon after Akhenaten's death around 1350 B.C., the priest-ridden, sybaritic Tutankhamen (the famed "King Tut" of the 1920s) rang down the curtain on his predecessor's splendid experiment...
Italo Nofri had once planned to be a priest himself, and when he turned to Communism, it was because he believed implicitly that it "would bring peace and social justice to our country. To me," said Italo Nofri, "Stalin was like God." Other Communists, he was soon to find, felt differently. Hearing the official assault on the Red deity after his death, Nofri was at first indignant, then puzzled, then racked with worry. At last he decided to leave the party...
...government relief and private charities, there are rules to be followed, conditions to be filled, investigations to be made. It was not his fault, one CARE official pointed out, that some 3,500 fishermen failed to qualify for a certain consignment of food packages. "These fishermen," said a priest working for a Roman Catholic charity, "waited six years before deciding things weren't so good in Red China. We have a lot of refugees who decided much earlier. Naturally they deserve consideration first." As these organizations pondered, the Reds peppered the fishermen with. letters: "Since you went away...
Jerome before Dr. Erwin Panofsky of Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study discovered that the minuscule address on the letter on the table could be deciphered. The medieval writing was addressed to "The Cardinal Priest of the Holy Cross of Jerusalem." St. Jerome had no connection with that church, but Van Eyck's friend and patron, Niccolo Albergati, was made cardinal of the church...
...BLONDE, by Jack Webb* (245 pp.; Rlnehart; $2.75), is a neatly plotted, fast-moving yarn featuring those two old friends and collaborators in crimebusting, Sergeant Sammy Golden and Father Joseph Shanley. The Jewish cop and the Roman Catholic priest are not only believable characters; they emerge as intelligent, genuinely good men who, therefore, understand the nature of wrongdoing. When these two set out to nail a crook, the standard good-v.-evil struggle takes on depth and excitement. There is probably a valuable lesson here for writers of the unrelieved tough-guy school, in which the hero's morals...