Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strange anomaly that the Church should be expected to produce political effects but to stay out of politics, and in an age which does not believe in miracles, to produce new miracles. Is it not the primary business of the Church to deal with the souls of men, and the primary business of the politicians and the economists to deal with the "earthly mess"? Possibly I am behind in my reading and unaware that the Pope has been appointed (with Stalin's blessing) Economic Stabilizer of Central Europe...
When he had it the way he wanted, Fildes began all over again, larger. The final version, which hangs in London's Tate Gallery, is still a great crowd-puller, but a less sentimental age no longer weeps openly at the sight of it, as visitors once did. The smaller first version is the proudest possession of the Guthrie Clinic in Sayre...
...declined into old age, fewer & fewer new people found their way to the high, white little gallery on Manhattan's Madison Ave., called "An American Place." "I'm glad," he would say mysteriously, "that no one has been in today to disturb these pictures." Some of those who did were frightened away by the proprietor's brooding glance...
...probably radioactive), viruses and bacteria-on many cities and industrial suburbs. The nation's doctors and all health facilities would have to be ready for total mobilization within 24 hours. A major problem: preventing the disruption of health services by the first attack (as happened in Hiroshima). Atomic-age warfare, military and medical men agree, would wipe out all distinction between combatants and noncombatants: there would probably be more civilian than military casualties, and doctors would have to be assigned flexibly to both groups...
Today Author Read, like many of his more thoughtful contemporaries, is a strange but balanced composite-man-an admirer of both Chinese philosophy and surrealism, an atheist with a yen for mystical writing, an advanced thinker who sees his old-fashioned childhood as "an age of unearthly bliss," a romantic "anarchist" who insists that "we must not assume that art and machinery are mutually exclusive, but experiment until we discover a machine art." As art critic and esthetic philosopher, Read is erudite and discerning; as a writer, he is precise and dry, so that his prose shows at its best...