Word: virginal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Suppose Mark came first instead of Matthew: Mark fails to report a miraculous virgin birth and does not mention Matthew's famous "keys of the kingdom" passage, upon which papal claims to authority rest. Mark plays down the Jewish moorings of Christianity that are evident in Matthew and important to Jewish-Christian relations. Moreover, since Mark's is the simplest and briefest of the Gospels, stories appearing only in the other Gospels might seem more suspect as pious legends, making the Jesus of history a vaguer, perhaps less credible figure...
...such prominence and independence to a figure of St. Joseph; usually he was relegated to the background of paintings and carvings. In terms of the advances made in Italian art by the end of the 15th century, a work like Zoutleeuw's carving of St. Anne and the Virgin seems archaic, even naive. But it is a stunning design, the deeply cut folds, strict as metal, building up a system of pyramids that finishes in the smooth, serene, Gothic arch of St. Anne's wimple. By the 16th century the church was commissioning more elaborately naturalistic works. There...
...carved oak reliefs of its altarpiece, circa 1565, form one of the chief treasures of St. Leonard's Church. The triptych shows scenes in the life of St. Anne, mother of the Virgin Mary. The Bible has no mention of Anne. The only source is the apocryphal gospel known as the Protoevangelium Jacobi, written in 170-180 A.D. This account has it that Anne and Joachim were devoted, but Anne could not conceive. So Joachim went into the desert to meditate; his wife stayed home to worry. An angel appeared to Anne, Joachim had a vision in the desert...
...tactic of the right wing rather than the left. Until I saw Nixon! I was inclined to believe him. However, Nixon! brings into the open a theme that winds subterraneanly through a good deal of Nixon criticism. The Nixons, you see, are thought to be frigid, asexual, virgin or impotent. So no wonder the left never attacks sexual misadventure on the right--the left won't even admit to the fact that the right has discovered sex, too. "The last fascist we castrated wasn't even smart enough to know it had happened," complains one of the burlesqued radicals...
...modular and prefabricated building techniques. In partnership with El Paso Natural Gas Co. and Reading & Bates, Boeing formed the Resources Conservation Co., which last week opened a desalination plant in El Paso and recently won a contract to build a similar operation at Cancel Bay Plantation in the Virgin Islands...