Word: drews
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chair, Mandery drew a lot of criticism from those who felt the council should take stands on controversial campus issues. He maintained throughout that the primary role of the council should be to provide student services--services that no other undergraduate organizations can provide...
Throughout its seven years, the council has had only spotty success in scheduling big-name concert appearances. In 1988, the council drew criticism for announcing and then cancelling two separate concerts...
...paying for it) told Jones he wanted the church to be "not much better than a barn." "Well, then! You shall have the handsomest barn in England," Jones answered, and produced it. He never delegated a design or failed to transform what he copied. He thought -- and drew -- in terms of large volumes, generous spaces, exalted plainness relieved by lucid, ingenious detailing. Later Georgian architects would owe him an immense debt. He was the father of English classicism...
Everything Jones drew breathes an air of amplitude and sophistication quite new to English art. This includes his stage designs, for he revolutionized the English theater by giving it, for the first time, the elaborate scenery with backdrops, revolving screens and sliding flats that had been developed in Italy. The confidence of his fantasies was striking, and even a costume sketch like the "fiery spirit," a torchbearer for one of his court masques, shakes its red plumage with Italianate brio. And though his inventiveness is best seen in the stone and brick of his finished buildings, one marvels...
...mainline leaning for liberal politics and low-cal theology drew on a sort of rationalism that, in the view of Richard Mouw of California's Fuller Theological Seminary, is no longer fashionable. "We are experiencing a reaction against modernity," says Mouw. "We are getting magic and the occult and the New Age. There's a return to a premodern world view." Mouw, an Evangelical, asserts that the churches were seriously mistaken in seeking to duck the age-old questions: "Who am I as a human being before God? How can I face my own death? How can I be forgiven...