Word: virginity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...among the dots and stripes on the right side is a head-down Crucifixion and its reflection through the banners of the Spanish provinces. A Paradisial egg of light at the top of the canvas contains, from the bottom up, Ferdinand and Isabella receiving Columbus, Saint Salvador, and the Virgin with the body of Christ. The tall banner on the left bears an exact and brilliant portrait of Dali's wife Gala...
...send Betancourt out of Puerto Rico as long as Figueres was there to keep Venezuelan Dictator Pérez Jiménez from thinking that a plot against him was being hatched on U.S. soil. Filled with shame, Muñoz sent Betancourt on his way to the nearby Virgin Islands...
...Through a Microscope? Wheaton College (most prominent alumnus: Billy Graham) has a nine-part credo, which must be signed anew each year by every faculty member and trustee. It includes the literal, divine inspiration of Scripture, the doctrines of the virgin birth, sinfulness of man "in thought, word and deed," the redemption, resurrection and imminent return of Jesus Christ, "the everlasting blessedness of the saved, and the everlasting punishment of the lost...
...took thoughtful note of the fact that much of the rites of the Mayas' animistic religion resembled Roman Catholicism. The Mayas burned candles and incense, venerated relics, held processions. Alvarado's priests seized on the common ground; they gave the local gods the names of saints, the Virgin and Christ, and pushed on to convert other pagans...
...Traun is rebuffed, Milli despairingly gives herself to another young man, in what may well be the most tepidly described seduction in contemporary literature: "One day in their flat, when his mother was out for a couple of hours only, he began to undress me . . . That I was a virgin surprised...