Word: church
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From 1926 to 1931 he headed the alumni committee which raised more than $800,000 to build Memorial Church, Harvard's World War I memorial. In addition, he served as treasurer for his class, agent for the Harvard Fund, and a trustee of Phillips Brooks House Association...
...opposition puts it this way; the government has a heavy responsibility to public schools, and no money should be diverted to bolster private educational systems. And this way: America operates on the separation of church and state; the parochial schools have no right to ask for public aid. Let them shift for themselves...
There is nothing modern about modern church statuary. Roman Catholic churches everywhere are filled with mass-production plaster replicas that perpetuate igth Century traditions of prettiness and molasses-smoothness. One reason is that few parishes can afford to commission sculptures on their own. Instead they buy from manufacturers catering to a safely low denominator of public taste. In Paris, a row of shops along the Rue St.-Sulpice supplies the demand. In the U.S., it's Barclay Street, in downtown Manhattan...
...practice of Catholic art in the U.S.") has battled this kind of traditionalism. The society's main argument is that beauty is not necessarily bland or strictly based on tradition. This week it backed up the argument with examples : the society had commissioned ten modern sculptors to make church statues for exhibition in a Manhattan gallery...
...Hint & the Jolt. The show was meant as a hint of what might happen if artists and Church were to cooperate once again, as they had in the greatest periods of Western art. It was an important and provocative try. But the ten statues commissioned by the society, while more varied than the Barclay Street product, were not always an improvement...