Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Brunswick, N.J. last week, Post 133 of the Jewish War Veterans volunteered to supply substitutes for Christians who would otherwise have to work on Christmas Day. First requests to come in were for twelve movie-theater ushers and three restaurant waitresses. "There are no conditions attached to the offer and we shall accept no compensation," explained the post's spokesman, Harold Berman. "Our sole reward will be the knowledge that we have been able, in a small way, to express our gratitude for the splendid relationship that exists between the Jewish members of our community and our Christian neighbors...
...that celebration of the Christian Christmas in the U.S. is coming more & more to resemble the pagan behavior that St. Paul warned against in his letter to the Romans. Last week, from pulpits across the nation, came warnings that holiday celebrations-particularly office parties-are getting out of hand...
John Donne, the 17th Century cleric who wrote these words, was a great enough poet to rise to the loftiest challenge any Christian artist can face: the translation of faith into the medium of art. Before Donne's day, such painters as Giotto, Raphael, Bellini and Leonardo met the same challenge on the same high plane. Bach and Handel, a little later, met it with their music...
...20th Century that modern artists have not met it; most of them-in their modern preoccupation with the mortal nature of man-have not even tried. Yet, as the century reached midpoint, there was evidence that here & there, though with only debatable degrees of success, creative men in the Christian world have been turning to the old challenge and the old theme. Among them, in literature, have been Novelist Graham Greene and Poet T. S. Eliot. In music, such composers as Igor Stravinsky and Francis Poulenc (TIME, Nov. 27) have attempted the awesome task of setting the Mass to modern...
...assembly of art drawn from 600 mission centers around the world. Among the finest sculptures in the show (TIME, Aug. 14) were sere oriental Madonnas from Korea and India, a dark Madonna and Child from Africa. But among the moderns of Europe and the U.S., a preoccupation with the Christian theme is still the rare exception; the main streams and the main schools follow other and worldlier concerns. Even among the exceptions it is hard to find anything with the radiance of John Donne's lines...