Word: artful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Britain's most uninhibited critic, the old man has taken savage swipes at the royal family, the Anglican Church, even Winston Churchill-and now the subject is sex. On the eve of Edinburgh's International Festival of the Arts, which was to offer plays featuring a homosexual embrace, two topless actresses and a sketch about the genitals of primitive man. Malcolm Muggeridge was moved to take the pulpit at St. Giles' Cathedral and inveigh against such "illiterate filth." "Have what passed for being art forms ever before been so drenched and impregnated with erotic obsessions, so insanely...
...Carmelites help support themselves by producing religious art, dutifully vote in each election and, in what they call "the apostolate by letter," spend much time answering letters from people seeking advice and consolation. Thus the changes suggested by the Vatican had been anticipated by the Dachau Carmelites. Such changes, says Mother Gemma, "are based on the need to intensify the impact, yet to leave the basic idea untouched." Foremost is the contemplative's devotion to a life of prayer-and at Dachau especially, that goal does not seem inappropriate for the 20th century...
...nation's richest woman; in Manhattan. Over the years, Mrs. Bruce (she married Career Diplomat David Bruce in 1926; they were divorced in 1945) quietly donated enormous sums to the institutions she loved, including $20 million (in conjunction with her brother) to Washington's National Gallery of Art last year and $3,000,000 to Lincoln Center in 1958. But, as a friend put it, "she had more money than anyone could give away sensibly." Last year FORTUNE estimated her personal worth at more than $500 million...
Died. Guy Rowe, 75, U.S. artist whose intensely realistic portraits (with the signature "Giro") graced more than 40 TIME covers; of cancer; in Huntington, N.Y. Rowe discovered his talent via a vaudeville act in which he drew chalk portraits of well-known people; he saved enough money for art school, became a New York commerical artist, and in 1943 won his first TIME commission. The association was interrupted from 1945 to 1949 while he worked on 32 highly acclaimed illustrations to Biblical characters for the book In Our Image: Character Studies from the Old Testament. Then he went back...
...proprietress of the Cooking School of Savor and Art, pretty, plump Dona Flor is a well-loved member of the community. She is also pitied because of her impulsive marriage to Vadinho, one of the great gamblers and womanizers in all Brazil. The novel begins at carnival time with Vadinho's sudden death while dancing the samba in drag, "with that exemplary enthusiasm he brought to everything he did except work...