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...final portrait was a handsome, delicately painted oil that looked like a faded Buddhist scroll suggesting blue mountains, red sky and willow-green foreground. At this point, according...
Main problem in decorating the room (opposite) was how to do it without offense to any of the numerous faiths represented in Congress. The committee in charge of designs and decorations for the prayer room tried hard to keep everything nondenominational. At the last minute a scroll was removed from the stained-glass window (donated by craftsmen and designers from California's 21st District) because it might be taken as a symbol of the Jewish Torah...
...strings of the parachute caught in the plane's undercarriage. The pilot, anxious to save the ceremony's moment of drama, impulsively reached out of his cockpit to free the scroll. As he fumbled, the plane dropped lower. Too late, the pilot saw his danger and banked his plane sharply. But he lost control of the plane and it nose-dived into the crowd, ten yards from where the Prime Minister and the other VIPs were standing. Casualties: 16 dead, 22 injured-the worst accident in Israel's short history...
...darkness is the holy challenge of the churches. How are the churches of America meeting the challenge? The change - in a generation - is enough to make wiseacres blink. Twenty-five years ago, traditional Christianity seemed to many an American intellectual to be rolling up the scroll. The Good Life was a matter of well-planned getting and spending, and all the answers were to be found written down, from Hegel to Freud to Keynes. Professor John Dewey and his fellow philosophers were preaching a heady trial & error pragmatism. The up-to-date intellectual was so uninterested in Christianity that...
...glass flowers every year--the specimens that Bierweiler mounts, catalogues, and preserves. On the 50th anniversary of his unique service his friends held a celebration at the Faculty Club in his honor. To commemorate his half century of devotion they presented him with a government bond and an illuminated scroll which proclaims the University's debt...