Word: saviour
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great sacred composition. He cut Bach's music to slightly over half its length, reorchestrated many passages of Bach counterpoint, peopled the Metropolitan Opera stage with a bevy of hooded mimes, who prowled about a collection of ramps and platforms like Ku Klux Klansmen at a Konklave. The Saviour was represented by a vertical shaft of light whose symbolic feet were symbolically dried by the hair of Maria Magdalena (Lillian Gish...
...Arthur has had a real experience with the Lord as have many other young men who have had battle experience. ... A week ago last Sunday, Nov. 27, Arthur came forward with 17 others in his group, and publicly professed Jesus Christ as his own personal Saviour and Lord. Baptism followed...
...only an example of the problems which will arise, and which will have to be settled by a decision acceptable both to the British and American people. Again, it must be realized that the French people, indeed the people of Europe, look to the United States as their saviour and any decision involving fundamental democratic principles must be suitable to them. The fact that the British Foreign Office has thrown its support behind General De Gaulle during the entire North African dispute cannot long be disregarded by the State Department. De Gaulle has offered to cooperate with General Giraud...
...plot introduces Errol "Custer's-Last-Stand" Flynn as he enters West Point. Here we see that he is a bad (really good) boy with a rebellious spirit, great imagination, and native fighting ability. After this, we see Errol the Civil War hero, Errol the Indian saviour, and Errol the "last stander," before the movie ends on a note of gaudy patriotism...
...three-hour service on Good Friday, when in Catholic churches seven sermons are usually preached on the Seven Last Words of Christ.* Joseph Haydn furnished an orchestral introduction for these discourses, seven slow interludes, a brief finale. Even without the religious connotations, the Words of Our Saviour on the Cross were a string of exceptionally beautiful Haydn slow movements. But the finale was a little brisk, almost jolly, in view of the fact that it was meant to describe the earthquake after the death of Christ...