Word: chicago
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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More sharp words flared last week from Karl Barth's son, Dr. Marcus Barth, 43, of the University of Chicago's Federated Theological Faculty. The younger Barth denounced U.S. Sunday schools for shunning reality with syrupy sermons that "Mama loves me. Papa loves me, teacher loves me, God loves me. This develops self-centered young egoists." The schools even launder Bible stories so that "Egyptians never drowned, John the Baptist was not beheaded." Urged Barth: "Even eight-year-olds can know that all the world is not rosy . . . Sunday schools should be ahead of the development...
...woodcut opposite, attest the artistic success of his quest. But it was a therapeutic disaster to himself; he died in the islands, of syphilis, malnutrition and a failing heart. Last week some 200 of his works, including 75 of his prints, went on show at the Art Institute of Chicago. The exhibition, which will move to Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art in April, helps make the great romantic a classic...
Gauguin's paintings are universally admired for the colors of a world sun-filled and yet without glare, various and yet disciplined like the rainbow. His woodcuts-generally printed in no more than two colors each-are far less known, but rightly emphasized in Chicago's show. Gauguin's Here We Love evokes that shadowland beneath the waterfall from which no traveler returns unchanged. His picture of a night-time bonfire conference is ominous with invisible evil (see below). Gauguin could create natural atmospheres with colors, and could create supernatural ones with ink alone...
...DeMille), abruptly stopped writing music altogether, later explained: "I felt that I was wrong or the world was wrong, and I decided to find out." The process of discovery was oblique. Widely able, he wrote articles for Esquire on endocrinology, a daily advice-to-the-lovelorn column for the Chicago Sun Syndicate, a book in 1940 on international strategy (The Shape of the War to Come). With a conviction that modern music was "intellectualized" and "quibbling," he returned to composition with fresh regard for the romantic and heroic, turned out operas and symphonies that won him a more solid reputation...
Died. Warren ("Baby") Dodds, 64, New Orleans-born jazz drummer, one of the greats in the history of jazz; of a heart attack; in Chicago...