Word: abyss
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...something specifically Christian in Michelangelo's works. It is equally possible to argue that the god of the Sistine Chapel comes from Olympus and that the finger he reaches out to Adam is a linking of minds between Renaissance man and his humanist Greek forebears across the medieval abyss...
...especially annoyed because not one topflight U.S. Zionist leader has settled down in Israel, and because immigration from the West has never been more than a trickle. "In the free and prosperous countries," warned Ben-Gurion, Judaism "faces the kiss of death, a slow and imperceptible decline into the abyss of assimilation!" Ben-Gurion, whose devotion to Judaism as a religion is something short of wholehearted, did not scruple to quote Jewish scripture for his own purposes. Every day spent abroad, he pointed out, violates the precept of the Talmud that says, "Whoever dwells outside the land of Israel...
There was a slow-gathering presentiment of crisis in France. President de Gaulle himself seemed to share it, for a new note crept into his discourses. He talked of "the abyss at our feet" if France were disunited. To a rain-soaked crowd at Chambery in the foothills of the Alps, he appealed in almost anguished tones for national unity. "I have no other reason for being, you well know, than this unity. I am in a way the symbol of it, the guarantee; events have willed it so. It is the service that I can perform in the days...
...color. The results are physically as fragile, in all probability, as those of an earlier American romantic, Albert Pinkham Ryder. They look fragile, too, like reflections of rain clouds, seaweed, mud flats and ragged gardens in a misty mirror. In his wistful way, Kepes is pioneering in the cloudy abyss between abstraction and romantic nature-painting...