Word: romanism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...facts of life in the new Met assemblage was a Roman copy of a 5th Century B.C. Greek bronze, The Wounded Amazon. The Met had picked it because it demonstrated some of the esthetic qualities the Greeks had prized most highly: the Amazon was dead calm, despite her wounds, and a fine-tuned example of physical fitness. Unlike the stiff, staring images of earlier cultures, she looked alive and in motion...
...admired object was the Portland Vase, a ten-inch-high urn of deep blue glass, decorated with white cameo figures of Peleus and Thetis. According to common, if unproved, legend, it was supposed to have come from the sarcophagus of the 3rd Century Roman Emperor Alexander Severus and to have once contained his ashes. Sir William Hamilton, otherwise known to history as the husband of Horatio Nelson's mistress, Emma, had brought it to England in 1770. Josiah Wedgwood had copied it, the Duchess of Portland had bought it (whence its present name), and her son had handed...
Certain Protestant groups in this country have a good case when they argue that Hollywood seems to recognize only one religion, and that one is the Roman Catholic. "The Song of Bernadette,' and "Goig My Way" both won many awards and, because of their "religious" nature, were of great prestige value to the Academy and ammunition in their eternal war with moralist groups. This past year, the Academy in its first recognition of foreign-language films, gave its "Oscar" to "Monsieur Vincent," a film dealing with the struggles of a Roman Catholic saint, by-passing one of the finest films...
...much more exclusive view of the road to salvation. "There is no doctrine that has been more often denned than that having to do with the salvation of the soul," said Lebanon-born Dr. Fakhri Maluf, 36, assistant professor of philosophy, who became a member of the Roman Catholic Church nine years ago. "Pope after pope has spoken on it. The Athanasian creed opens with the statement: 'Whosoever wishes to be saved, before all things it is necessary that he hold the Catholic faith...
...Church's famed Baltimore Catechism* states explicitly that those who remain outside the Roman Catholic Church "through no grave fault of their own and do not know it is the true Church can be saved by making use of the graces which God gives them . . ." Each man, the Catholic Church holds, gets enough grace to achieve salvation. Only God knows how he uses...