Word: amsterdam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beckmann liked to repeat the familiar mystical idea that the man who penetrates the visible world deeply enough will see the invisible. That belief led him to produce richly symbolic art, which struck the Nazis as "degenerate." They hounded him from his native Germany to Amsterdam, where he painted in hiding throughout the war. In 1947, when he was 63, Beckmann came to the U.S. to teach-first at St. Louis' Washington University and later at the Brooklyn Museum School. He urged his students to paint from the heart, yet never hesitated to correct their efforts with a loaded...
...country needs the full picture, including the principles of cooperation of the parallel 20th Century Reformation movement. This has taken shape in separations; new churches; the establishment of the American Council of Christian Churches in 1941; the International Council of Christian Churches in Amsterdam, 1948, Geneva, 1950; the conferences and struggle in Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 1949, and Bangkok, Siam, 1949; the forthcoming Pan-American Evangelical Conference in Sao Paulo, Brazil, July 16-24, 1951; and the Conference of Christian Churches of Asia, Manila, Philippines...
...Faith & Order" and "Life & Work" flowed together to form the World Council of Churches, which held its first assembly at Amsterdam in 1948. Meanwhile, in various countries around the world, the ecumenical idea was beginning to snowball. In some cases, actual organic unity proved possible. Since 1900, some 30 U.S. denominations have merged into a third as many-notably the Northern and Southern Methodists and the Methodist Protestant Church, whose merger in 1939 made the Methodist Church the largest (currently 8,900,000 members) united Protestant church in the U.S. But the two most ambitious experiments in union took place...
...Sexcellency" Sally Rand and comedian Morey Amsterdam will bring big name talent to a Freshman Smoker for the first time in three years at 8:30 p.m. tonight in Sanders Theatre. A beer guzzling fest in Memorial Hall with half a gallon of hops for everyone will follow the entertainment...
...Amsterdam, a radio and television comic, will ply his usual rapid-fire line of gags and ad libs...