Word: backed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moved in with a divorcee who was a painter, writer and Trotskyite trying to find her way back to the Roman Catholic Church. "She was going to Mass when I met her, so I went along because I couldn't stand being deserted. I hated the religion. Catholicism intruded a ritual between God and man. As an anarchist, I couldn't stand the idea of an institution between...
...Route Back. For his poetry readings Brother Antoninus takes off his white tunic, black scapular and hood, to dress his 6-ft. 4-in. frame in clerical street garb-a plain black suit, black tie. Says he: "Society has two structures, the institutional and the visionary. There has to be a synthesis. I feel that I have found that religion in which the institutional and the visionary are reconcilable . . . The beat have repudiated the institutional. They have no route back theologically...
...Canadian Rhodes scholar at Oxford (Christ Church). As an assistant professor at Manhattan's General Theological Seminary, Dr. Simpson became a U.S. citizen in 1937 ("I cast my first vote for La Guardia") and a distinguished Biblical scholar (The Early Traditions of Israel). In 1954 Oxford called him back to be regius professor of Hebrew and one of Christ Church's five canons. There he is known with considerable awe for searching lectures combined with openhanded hospitality, a briskly friendly American who keeps a visitor's glass filled and vacuum-cleans his brain at the same time...
Douglas overwhelms him with irrelevant information, tempts him with a scrumptious Maryland crab salad, sends him tooting off on a tour of the farm with an oversexed daughter (Debbie Reynolds) who reclines invitingly in the first patch of tall grass she can find. By the time Tony gets back to the farmhouse, two of Debbie's grade-schoolboy brothers have helpfully removed the engine from his car-they are giving him, they announce, a free "ring job." At about this point, poor Tony is driven to drink (something called a Laughing Hyena: one part vermouth, two parts gin, three...
...Back in 1923 Kiesler proposed the first actual shell house in history. The Pantheon in Rome is half a shell. Kiesler modeled a true shell, an egglike construction balanced on stilts and tensile all around-not just at the top and sides. Last year, 35 years after he proposed it, Kiesler was commissioned by Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art to carry out his still-revolutionary idea in model form. He secluded himself in his Greenwich Village loft, spent month after month brooding, sketching, constructing. The end result is bound to surprise even those who know him. Anchored...