Word: virgin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...United Church of Christ has "omitted" Jesus' virgin birth "so as to emphasize" that he was no more God than Dr. Arndt. Without amendment of this gospel, its followers might easily become the United Church of Christ, Mohammed, Buddha and Vishnu...
...holiest places in the shrine-rich Mediterranean world. Rising in sheer purple splendor above the plain 30 miles inland from Barcelona, Spain, the mountain is topped with spires of steeple-like rock. And there, inside the crown, perches an ancient fortress-monastery, where the "Black Virgin" is enshrined. Legend has it that the dark wooden Madonna with the Child upright in her lap appeared as if by miracle within a cave in the mountain one day ten centuries ago. First a church, then a monastery was built near the peak in her honor. The shrine became a military strongpoint...
...thousands who visit Montserrat, only a handful of men (women are forbidden) is allowed to penetrate the monastery cloister, where a splendid art collection has been formed in the Virgin's honor. Among the hidden masterpieces on the cloister walls, Caravaggio's St. Jerome is perhaps the most compelling...
...character to make it suitable for liturgical use. We found our efforts always turned out to be patterned on the Apostles' Creed: first we talk about God, the Creator and Father, then about the Son, and next about the Holy Spirit . . . We omitted any reference to the Virgin Birth because we want to emphasize that God comes to us as a real man in the Man of Nazareth . . . both a man among...
...carefully etched and compellingly played. Her drunk scene with Mitch towards the end of Act II is excellent. Standing in the middle of a large brass bed, she cries out her soul like an hysterical child, desperately pleading for magic magic, not realism. She can give you the virgin-like innocence of a child one minute and the drunken swagger of a two-bit slut the next. There is a fine Blanche latent here! There are some strang inflections and an unusual clipped speech that often give her voice an ingenuous quality, and seem wholly at odds with...