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In U.S. seminaries Lutheran Rudolf Bultmann is best known as one of the founders of "form criticism," the widely accepted method of analyzing the Bible in terms of the forms-homilies, didactic methods, storytelling devices-used by those who wrote down and compiled the Gospels. But in 1941 Professor Bultmann...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Christianity & Myth | 9/24/1956 | See Source »

As Sister Joanna of the Cross, Julie Curtis displays a convincing maternal instinct in the first act, but later became insipid in her farewell scene with Teresa. Joyce White as Sister Marcella was miscast; she lacked the youth and radiance that this nun, who secretly keeps a mirror to catch...

Author: By Stephen R. Barnett, | Title: The Cradle Song | 8/2/1956 | See Source »

Sponsored by faculty and alumni of the Graduate School of Design, the two-day conference will be "exploratory, not didactic," and will try to find a common basis for the joint work of the three professions which will send representatives--city planners, architects, and landscape architects.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Planners to Investigate 'Aesthetic Urban Design' | 1/13/1956 | See Source »

Despite all the chalk, there is no lecture at the blackboard. There are a few too many whiffs of symbolism, but Playwright Bagnold is neither mystical nor didactic. Instead, after the fashion of all true high-comedy writing, something simply becomes the more touching for having seemed brittle, the more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Nov. 7, 1955 | 11/7/1955 | See Source »

Allen Grossman treats a more perennial problem than current cultural insanity in his poem about isolated man searching for a lasting love. Although the meaning of some of Grossman's lines is not quite clear, the poem is rich and provocative. Peter Junger's two poems are much less fertile...

Author: By Frank R. Safford, | Title: The Advocate | 6/6/1955 | See Source »

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