Word: virginity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chosen to play Jesus Christ in The Greatest Story Ever Told. One of the ablest members of Ingmar Bergman's close-knit film and theater team, Von Sydow was the mysterious hero of The Magician, the God-haunted knight in The Seventh Seal, the avenging father in The Virgin Spring. When the Hollywood offer came, says Von Sydow, "I thought with horror of Cecil B. DeMille and such things as Samson and Delilah and The Ten Commandments. But when I saw the script, I decided that the role of Jesus is absolutely not a religious clich...
Package v. Product. The virgin birth is a myth, Pike feels, designed to communicate the simultaneous humanity and divinity of Christ; so is the thorny theological concept of the Trinity. "The packaging is not to be confused with the product . . . For example, 4th century church leaders, imbued with a dated Greek philosophy, tried to organize God's revelation of himself into categories which thoughtful people of that time could grasp. They did a good job. They gathered up God's true revelation of Himself as Creator (we might say 'Evolver'), Redeemer (we might say 'Healer...
...covered, he travels the vast land, bawls orders to the peasants in his hoarse, high-pitched voice: "Keep the weeds down." "Put on more manure." "Thin out in case of drought." Khrushchev, another peasant's son from the Ukraine, understands and appreciates that kind of talk. Lysenko tells virgin land pioneers not to plow their land in the fall but to plant their grain amidst the snow-catching stubble, advises Volga farmers to increase their crop by cutting their seed potatoes into three or four chips before sowing. However wildly willful his theories, he gets what the pragmatic Khrushchev...
...write?" Lysenko: "In July or August." Khrushchev: "And how many pages were there in your note?" Lysenko: "About 20." Khrushchev: "Then they read 20 pages in six months. They read slowly in the Agriculture Ministry." By then, the Agriculture Minister had already been shipped off to the Virgin Lands. His successor: Professor Mikhail Olshansky, who has been Lysenko's right-hand man ever since Lysenko established himself as the boss of Soviet genetics...
Though the influence of El Greco can be seen in the upward sweep of one of his rare religious paintings, The Virgin Placing the Chasuble on Saint Ildefonso (see color), Velásquez' style, stripped of the mannerism of his predecessors, was essentially his own. In his early years, when he painted scenes of ordinary life around him, his palette was somber; color was less important to him than the play of light and shadow and the arrangement of forms. His paintings rarely told a story, and whatever action there might be seemed almost always suspended. Yet his tipplers...