Word: crucifixes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whim seized him, in a tent in the desert, a palace in Portugal or an old house in Constantinople. He carried around with him a trunkful of objets d'art, including a bronze bull, his own novels bound in white vellum, some colored quill-pens, a "vast tortoiseshell crucifix" and stacks of "those large blue rectangular postcards" on which he wrote both his novels and correspondence ("Tomorrow I go to Hayti," crooned one such card to Sir Osbert. "They say the President is a Perfect Dear...
...have stirred themselves into a small uproar over pictorial representations of Christ. When the Rev. George B. Chambers, vicar of Carbrooke Church in Norfolk, undertook a journey to Bulgaria to witness the Protestant pastors' trial (TIME, March 7), the tabloid Daily Mirror indignantly published a picture of the crucifix which Vicar Chambers commissioned in 1935-Young Christ Triumphant (see cut). Vicar Chambers was as undisturbed about the crucifix as he had been about the Bulgarian trials. "The hammer & sickle are Christian symbols," he explained...
...outside visitor, the most interesting class is that on Communism. Beneath a crucifix on the classroom wall hang two poster-size diagrams of the Soviet state organization. With the classics of Communism before them (as well as Cominform publications and books from Moscow), the young priests gather around a big table to discuss, with dialectical zeal, the fine points of Marxism. Explains their instructor, former philosophy professor Canon Don Emilio Benavent...
...opened, imperious Evita acted as if she owned the place. She announced when she would speak, decided where she would sit. She had already proclaimed that she would furnish some of the convention props. Among them: a portrait of Argentina's Liberator José de San Martin, a crucifix, a vellum-bound copy of the Gospels, and most important, a chair of native pipiribi wood with President Perón's portrait, the Argentine shield, and the Peronista party emblem painted on its back...
...Forget." At that point, Tomas de Torquemada, the Grand Inquisitor, strode into the room. He was (in the words of Historian Francis Hackett) "lean, ascetic, ominous, with black fires in his hollow eyes, reminding one of certain Spanish landscapes that look like the suburbs of hell." Holding out a crucifix, Torquemada said: "Judas Iscariot sold Christ for 30 pieces of silver: Your Highness is about to sell Him for 30,000 ducats. Here He is; take Him and sell Him." He left the crucifix on a table and withdrew; shaken, the King declared that the edict would stand...