Word: christly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Central African Federation (the united British territories of Southern and Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland), Todd fought to advance the rights of black men. He tried to give the vote to more Africans, to increase Africans' wages. But in his zeal for racial "partnership," Garfield Todd, longtime Churches of Christ (Disciples) missionary, gradually antagonized more and more of Southern Rhodesia's 175,800 whites. Last month his own Cabinet resigned in protest and demanded that Todd himself quit (TIME, Jan. 27). Africans warned it would be a "sad day" if Todd went. Last week the sad day had come...
...French painting talents who broke into the 20th century in such garish, searing colors that they were called "Wild Beasts," but he stood apart from the rest. In an age given over primarily to secular beliefs, Roman Catholic Rouault was unabashedly a religious man. "I hope to paint a Christ so moving that those who see Him will be converted," he said. He became the greatest religious artist of his century...
...early apprenticed to a stained-glass maker, began painting on a religious theme while studying at the Beaux-Arts. He painted sin in the form of prostitutes, evil in the faces of dishonest judges, misery in the eyes of clowns-and finally he depicted faith and goodness in Christ. He expressed himself in paint so thick that at times it seems to glow like stained glass, at other times burns against the black outlines like live coals. Driven by an unremitting artistic conscience, he agonized over some of his paintings for 25 years before he finally considered them finished. Though...
Died. Dame Christabel Pankhurst, 77, daughter of Pioneer Suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst, and herself a jail-hopping crusader for women's rights who switched her militancy in the '20s to evangelism (heralding the Second Coming of Christ), was named Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire by George V in 1936; in Santa Monica, Calif...
...ready to live happily ever after on his borrowed time. This is like preparing the reader's palate for hemlock and serving him Postum. Author Hauser has symbollixed up her main character so thoroughly that it is never clear whether he is the old Adam, the fool-in-Christ, or just plain fool. Author Hauser has a sharp eye and sure words for the homeliest of scenes, e.g., "an empty clothesline strung with rain pearls." Her novel is best when her people are worst-sparrow-agile before the flung bird seed of gossip, and vulture-ugly as they pick...