Word: communionism
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...seems an oriental counterpart to Van Gogh's; and like the European master, Affandi sometimes feels in blissful communion with nature while at other times his human passions boil up in sorrowing rage. His Javanese wife cares for his few worldly concerns and helps keep him on an even keel...
...London and his post as executive officer of the Anglican Communion (TIME, May 4), the U.S.'s Protestant Episcopal Bishop Stephen F. Bayne Jr. was asked to describe his new duties: "I am rather like a mosquito in a nudist camp. I know what I ought to do, but I don't know where to begin...
...Truly Basic Challenges." At 8 o'clock next morning, the President joined Vice President Nixon, assorted Cabinet members and Congressmen, and 800 other worshipers at the National Presbyterian Church for a communion service on the occasion of the reconvening of the 86th Congress. After the service (conducted by six ministers and 30 elders), the President went to the adjoining parish hall and met with church officials in a discussion of the proposed $20 million new National Presbyterian Church. He looked over the plans for the new building, heard a description by Architect Edward Stone (TIME cover, March...
...discovery of at least one ultimate certainty ("I think, therefore I am") is responsible for dividing man against himself by isolating thought from total being. Today's battle is waged "between the dehumanized society of secularism, which imitates Descartes' mechanical nature, and the eternal society of the communion of the human spirit...
Santa's Workshop. At the core of the Japanese character, Author Maraini sees certain determining qualities. The first is intimacy with nature. The Japanese garden is nature in the raw, scaled down but retaining its own asymmetrical harmony. The Japanese goal is not decoration or domination but communion, to experience the rockness of a rock or the treeness of a tree. A second quality- is seemingly innate manual dexterity. As Author Maraini describes it, Japan is a kind of mammoth Santa's workshop full of exquisite wood and paper toys...