Word: thomases
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Organized crime secured its first firm beachhead in New Jersey during Prohibition days, when Abner ("Longie") Zwillman used the state as the base for 40% of the nation's bootlegging operations. Aside from Newark and Jersey City, much of the state retained a rural character until the opening of...
Obese Orchestras. Thereafter, everybody got into the act. From Mozart to obscure professors, composers reorchestrated and rearranged The Messiah. Since everybody wanted to sing it too, the choruses became enormous, and orchestras swelled proportionately. On the theory that if Handel had had a big orchestra he would have used it...
> Age of titans ends with deaths of C. S. Lewis, Martin Buber, Albert Schweitzer, Paul Tillich, John Courtney Murray, Thomas Merton, Harry Emerson Fosdick-and the pre-eminent theologian Karl Barth.
For "Christian radical" theologians like Thomas Altizer and William Hamilton, God was dead, and the sacred with him. Nietzsche had coined the phrase in the 19th century, but it was Altizer, the Christian atheist, who gave it new currency. The God of the Bible had died in Jesus Christ, he...
The three angels who dined with Abraham are not described in Genesis. Early Christian painters presented them as strong, manly figures who greatly resembled Abraham. But angels were swift travelers and miraculous beings. By the 4th century A.D., Abraham's visitors had permanently acquired wings and halos. Much thought...