Word: explained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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JESUS CHRIST, II APPEARING, heralded the ad in letters two inches high. It went on to explain in the small print that the coming would occur on three successive January days, at three Hollywood churches. The message was signed in a clear, bold hand: Jesus Christ...
...return and rediscovery of his "adopted homeland." A Buddhist scroll hanging in a friend's house provides Author Maraini with one of his key themes: "Free yourself from attachment to useless things." The Japanese mind is obsessed with the transience of things, which may help to explain both gimcrack exports and the scroll paintings of ukiyo-e ("the floating world") of the theater and the geisha. This wars with the principle of permanence reflected in the Shinto worship of nation and ancestor. Innovations change the Japanese scene without changing the Japanese...