Word: saint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when considering the affairs of her hemisphere neighbors, El Tiempo aims and fires at will. Last week El Tiempo drew a bead on Argentina's President Juan Domingo Perón, whose followers recently celebrated Loyalty Day (TIME, Oct. 30), known also to thousands of Argentines as "Saint Perón's Day." Said El Tiempo...
...Greco. The picture commemorates a legend that St. Stephen and St. Augustine descended from Heaven to help bury the 14th Century noble. Historians have guessed that the little boy standing before St. Stephen is the artist's son, and that the face peering at the spectator over the saint's head is El Greco...
...states were capable ... It was on this occasion that I imposed a contribution of works of art for the Museum at Paris; being the first instance of the kind that occurs in modern history. Parma furnished twenty pictures chosen by the French Commissioners, amongst which was the famous Saint Jerome [by Correggio]. The duke offered two millions to be allowed to keep this picture." But Napoleon ruled that it would be "ornamental" to his capital...
...political organization. His followers must be valorous but subservient, and he has little use for democracy: "Freedom leads to equality, and equality to stagnation-which is death . . . The multitude is never free . . ." The happiest men are to be found in "deserts^ monasteries." It soon becomes apparent, in fact, that Saint-Ex wanted the passion for God and love to flourish in a social framework which would shortly make violent rebels of most men of spirit...
Like many another sensitive man, Saint-Ex had become sick of the human greed and selfishness he saw about him. He affirmed that men can be better than they are, and like many another perfectionist, sought a moral and spiritual climate where goodness could flourish. Halfway through this century which he hated, most men can share Saint-Ex's yearning toward God. It is not likely that they would accept life in his parched heaven...