Word: christian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stay-at-homes will be able to participate in Beacon Hill carol singing and visit the Ice Capades, Gardner Museum, John Hancock building, Ford Motor Factory, Christian Science Monitor, and other points of interest...
...papers took refuge in such "objectivity." Many of them took pains to put their readers on guard. From the first, the New York Times played the story conservatively and headlined it gingerly, as did the Christian Science Monitor. The New York Herald Tribune early warned its readers of good cause for "skepticism," and the Louisville Courier-Journal scouted the story from the start, bitterly lamenting: "Not the least of the tragedies of our era of mass communications is the power possessed by little men with loud voices and a vestigial sense of decency. Wherever the target is big enough, there...
They made a surprisingly fine exhibition, and one that proved that subjective moderns need not be stultified by the task of painting theme pictures. The French, it appeared, were still champs: no U.S. entry could match the tonal subtlety of the winter landscapes by France's Christian Caillard and Roger Chapelain-Midy, or the sophistication of Oscar Dominguez' half-abstract Christmas tree, with its candles that cast pointed black shadows from each glowing wick, or the wit of Gustave Singier's bright blue abstraction, Noel Provencal, which looked as mindlessly gay and involved as a game...
...conferees found nothing to feel smug about. "The imprint of Christian culture in Asia is lighter than the West assumes," said Visser 't Hooft. Said Dr. Mackay, president of Princeton Theological Seminary,' who has spent the past two months in the Far East: "There's a tremendous void in the heart of East Asia. The ancient religions are unable to explain the revolutionary changes that are taking place, or have no adequate ideas or attitudes with which to meet them...
...must seek to win to the Christian faith . . . even Communists themselves. We must outthink, out-live-and, if necessary, out-die the Communists...