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...what beautiful paintings we have. People used to get depressed or angry and take it out on their homes. Now they take better care of them." In the Maravilla district of town, Artist David Lopez and Psychologist Sam Cepeda joined with the Arizona Gang to work on a Virgin of Guadalupe mural. After the painting was completed, gang members took a more proprietary interest in the neighborhood, and vandalism dropped sharply. "I could never get the Arizona boys to talk before," says Cepeda. "But," he adds, in typical professional jargon, "once they work on a mural, they verbalize a problem...
...Seminary from 1945 to 1963; of heart disease; in Belle Meade, N.J. Van Dusen combined a profound faith with skepticism over excessive dogmatism and clerical parochialism. His ordination was held up for two years while Presbyterian leaders agonized over his right to question the literal biblical rendition of the Virgin birth. During Van Dusen's tenure as president, Union's enrollment doubled and such studies as psychiatry and religious drama joined the curriculum. A prime organizer of the World Council of Churches, Van Dusen frequently trekked about the globe promoting Protestant ecumenism...
...with pain even when they do feel it, for the little power they have is so tenuous. Although this is changing--often in confusing ways, women still get a sense of themselves and of their power over other people--especially men--in the same way a 35 year old virgin named Ethel Blake does...
...provinces surrounding Saigon, the South Vietnamese have suffered several serious setbacks, including the loss a month ago of the entire province of Phuoc Long on the Cambodian border. The same day the Communists captured Phuoc Long, they dislodged Saigon's forces from the strategic Nui Ba Den (Black Virgin Mountain), which overlooks the important provincial capital of Tay Ninh, where the South Vietnamese 25th Division is garrisoned. Communist forces have launched a random shelling of the city that has driven out some 30,000 of its 350,000 residents...
...world of 1420 is full of voices - from all sorts of prophets, as trologers, witches. Every oak grove is "enchanted timber." The Golden Bough seems to coexist with the Gospels on these pages, rinding common ground in the ritual of sacrifice. From the first, Keneally's virgin, who never even menstruated, is predestined to shed blood as scapegoat for her unworthy King. "All she wanted to do," he sums up, "was achieve her own victimhood...