Word: virgin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...painting shows the Virgin kneeling in adoration of the Christ child, who is being held in the arms of an angel. When it first arrived in the U.S. it was a somewhat different painting. It had apparently left Verrocchio's studio with the kneeling Madonna unfinished. About 40 years later, judging by the style, a minor painter completed it. Examination showed that beneath the visible Madonna was the brush drawing of Verrocchio. The overpaint was removed, revealing Verrocchio's original drawing on white gesso...
GABRIEL: I, Gabriel, shall go to a virgin by the name of Mary. She shall bear...
...Journey into Night, A Moon reintroduces the hard-drinking older O'Neill brother, James Tyrone Jr. Jim Tyrone is by now a wholly dissipated, used-up drunk, his last reserves gone with the death of his mother. The sweet, healthy, hulking daughter of an Irish tenant farmer, a virgin who pretends to be a wanton, has long been wildly in love with Jim. The two come together alone one night, but beyond a quickly aborted impulse of drunken lust in Jim, nothing happens. Partly from knowing he must spoil her life by sharing it, and even more from having...
...Geoffrey, Carmen and their ten-week-old son now live in a Manhattan apartment with a fancy piano (mother-of-pearl inlay) and a large plaster statue of the Virgin. There Geoffrey sits up at night (he often sleeps only three hours) turning out ardently colored canvases, for which he gets from...
Graham preaches the doctrines of the Trinity, Incarnation, Redemption; he accepts the authority of the Scriptures, the Virgin Birth, the Resurrection and Second Coming of Christ; he acknowledges the existence of a personal Satan, the immortality of the soul, a heaven and hell beyond the grave, the necessity of personal repentance, of a personal Saviour. "So far, fine," says Father Kelly in the Homiletic & Pastoral Review. "But there is plentiful mixing of truth and error in his preaching on these points." And Kelly complains that Evangelist Graham leaves out entirely such cornerstones of the Catholic faith as the mediating power...