Word: biennially
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meeting in Rochester, N.Y. for their week-long Biennial Assembly, 700 delegates of the Universalist Church of America talked about cutting loose once & for all from "supernatural Christianity" and proclaiming a "truly universal faith." The Universalist Church, said the Rev. Brainard Gibbons of Wausau, Wis., should "proclaim a new type of universalism which is boundless in scope, as broad as humanity, and as infinite as the universe. For a long time, Universalists have been reaching beyond the narrow bounds of Christianity to pluck their grapes of knowledge from the vines growing in the boundless vineyards of truth, and the religious...
...although for 16 years he plugged away at them in the privacy of his Venice studio, smoothing their voluptuous plaster curves with wire brushes. At the end of World War II, he brought his work out into the open for the first time, won recognition at the big Venice Biennial show last year...
...ears cauliflowered and his brains souffléed, the National Maritime Union's tough Joe Curran squared off again last week against his Communist rebels. But Joe, who kicked loose from the party line 2½ years ago, hardly got scratched. Delegates to the N.M.U.'s biennial convention amended the constitution to bar all Communists who apply for membership, just missed with a second amendment which would throw out the Reds already in the N.M.U...
...Corcoran Gallery in Washington staged its 21st biennial exhibition last week. Designed to be a cross section of contemporary U.S. art, the show should have been as exciting an event as most of the Corcoran's past shows. Actually, it was no such thing...
...leisure occupation, is not much more inexplicable than a lively taste for modern art, especially if it is abstractionist art. What's more - as Washington's Corcoran Gallery of Art has good reason to know - the public gets disputing mad about it. The gallery's biennial shows of current U.S. painting invariably cause a loud outcry of outrage...