Word: swiss
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mysterious Book Bag" CRIMSON begins its presentation of Swiss's chilling serial The Circle of Seven. H. Lewiss is the pseudonym assistant professor of English Harvard who began this venture into fiction as a diversion from his studies of the Jacobean theater. Further episodes of The Circle of Seven will appear regularly in issues of the REVIEW and in inserts in the daily paper...
...20th century, no man has been a stronger witness to the continuing significance of Christ's death and Christ's return than the world's ranking Protestant theologian, Swiss-born Karl Barth (rhymes with heart). Barth knows that the Gospel accounts of the Resurrection are not coherent, but he refuses to make the mystery more palatable to human reason by suggesting-as did the great 19th century Theologian D. F. Strauss in his Life of Jesus-that the story of the crucifixion is a "myth." Instead, Barth argues that the subject of this unique event...
...glasses planted far down on his nose. His conservative suits are usually rumpled and flecked with tobacco from the pipe that seldom is out of his mouth. Barth is a Calvinist, but not a gloomy one; at home he speaks kindly to large dogs and small children (in guttural Swiss-German), displays a mellow, Dutch-uncle patience with puzzled students. In conversation Barth is full of wisecracks-some pleasantly pixy, some theologian-arch. Once, asked by a stranger on the trolley car if he knew the great Karl Barth, he replied: "Know him? I shave him every morning...
...World War II Barth volunteered at the age of 54 for the Swiss army, spent much of the duration guarding a bridge on the German frontier. Barth cheerfully ad mits that, despite his lifelong hobby of military strategy, he showed no aptitude for leadership. Placed in command of a squad patrolling a mountain pass one cold winter night, he distributed his troops, soon found that they had all deserted to a hut for the warmth of a fire and hot coffee. "That," he says, "was the crash of my ambition to be a corporal...
Feature on Swiss Motion Sculptor Jean Tinguely. Color...