Word: curiousities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...emerged again last week, in Italy's first national election in five years, as the country's strongest political force. But despite general prosperity, their twelve-year grip on office and their excellent, tight-knit political organization, the party failed once again to win a majority. A curious sort of apathy, which could hardly be dismissed as electoral indifference when 94% of those eligible voted (compared to the 50% average turnout at major U.S. elections), hung over the campaign. Perhaps the reason showed in Party Boss Amintore Fanfani's tepid victory cry: "We can continue to guarantee...
Critics find in the Sardinian bronzes a curious foreshadowing of works by such contemporaries as Henry Moore, Marino Marini. Georges Braque-and with good reason. One of the strongest moves in 20th century sculpture was to bypass classic Greek and Roman models to find inspiration in the earlier, cruder and fresher works of once scorned primitive art. The few Sardinian bronzes that are privately owned have brought offers of up to $16,000 for a single piece. An ardent admirer, Sculptor Jacques Lipchitz, praises their vitality, says, "They are almost as free as we are today." Sardinians consider them priceless...
...Soft Sell. This curious situation was skillfully played upon by De Gaulle himself, that odd, proud man who satisfied no one but who was many people's choice as a last resort. During his jam-packed Paris press conference at the beginning of the week, the man who boasts that he brought the Fourth Republic into existence gave open encouragement to Algeria's rebellious soldiers and settlers, noted sardonically that they "have not been the object of any sanctions on the part of the public authorities . . . Why would you have me call them sedition-mongers...
...middle-aged and old folk at his Sunday morning service in a church big enough for 300, he could not help thinking of the Catholic church across the street where the building was filled five times every Sunday morning. He was probably angry at first, but later he became curious. How could the Catholics do what his church could not do? He had to study the Catholic church; he could no longer ignore...
Scores of Americans and Europeans call on Ruth Sasaki each month. But, says she, "the majority of them are faddists or just curious, and Zen is not for them. In the Western world Zen seems to be going through the cult phase. Zen is not a cult. The problem with Western people is that they want to believe in something and at the same time they want something easy. Zen is a lifetime work of self-discipline and study. Its practice destroys the individual self. The ego is, as it were, dissolved into a great ego -so great that...