Word: burial
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Berman both speak with interest on the question of religion in the Soviet Union, but their conclusions are somewhat different. Frye, who attended a Moslem burial in Central Asia and visited various houses of worship, noted great interest in religion, but says that generally it was confined to the older people. He believes that religion is dying out as a result of the anti-religious propaganda taught in the schools...
Parnassus in the Vatican. Agostino Chigi, the Rockefeller to 16th century Rome, was a firm believer in astrology (a pagan holdover), yet pious too. The meaning of the decorations he ordered for his burial chapel in Rome's Church of Santa Maria del Popolo is obviously that the lives of men are subject to the planets, which are in turn subject to God. Raphael, who painted the pagan divinity Galatea for Chigi's palace, also made the Vatican shine with Christian and pagan subjects, depicting the company of the saints and a synod of ancient sages opposite...
Hard & Half-Hard. The last two sim nons to reach the U.S. are published to gether in a single volume called Destinations. One of them, The Burial of Monsieur Bouvet, is a mixture of detection, mood and Paris atmosphere that gets under way when an elderly gentleman drops dead at a Paris bookstall. Since the author is more interested in the frayed lives and barely concealed despairs of his characters than in the mystery, he calls it a "half-hard," i.e., half-serious novel...
Last week the diggers found a shallow grave containing the skeleton of a young man close to seven feet tall. His shield, spear and knife identified him as a Saxon of the early fifth century. All his limbs were broken, according to the pagan burial custom (perhaps to cripple the ghost), and the back of his skull had been bashed in. The diggers hoped that one of the Britons of Puddle Hill had liquidated at least one of the monstrous Saxons...
...Only burial tombs and a few walls remain of their once-sumptuous cities, their ancient Greek script is largely undeciphered, most of their art has been dispersed and lost. But in their heyday, from 700 to 400 B.C., these ancient, vigorous people controlled most of central Italy and the Po River valley and Elba and Corsica...