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Handsome Tributes. The loan show was packed with surprises. Paul Mellon has been known publicly as a collector of 18th and 19th century British painting (TIME, July 5, 1963). Since his mother was English and he loved riding to hounds, it was a taste that came naturally. In fact, his first purchase at the age of 29 was a picture of a horse named Pumpkin by the English proto-romantic artist George Stubbs. Then, after his marriage in 1948 to Rachel Lambert (whom he calls "Bunny"), he began exchanging such horsy enthusiasms for the vivacious vegetation of the French impressionist...
Ruth Adams was born in New York City, educated at Long Island's Adelphi University, Columbia and Radcliffe. She tutored at Harvard, taught English for 14 years at the University of Rochester, went to Douglass to succeed Mary Bunting when Mrs. Bunting left in 1960 to be president of Radcliffe. At Douglass, Miss Adams has been a popular leader: she liberalized curfew hours, fended off attack by war veterans on a satirical poem in the campus magazine, told spooky stories to the girls on Halloween. She plainly admires firm administration but knows that the job consists of "making possible...
...JERALD BRAUER, 43, Lutheran, the dean. Brauer's scholarly field is English Puritanism, and his modern interest is the effect of religion in politics and education. Appointed dean eleven years ago, he is committed to the credo that "knowledge, although of value for its own sake," must lead to social action. >GIBSON WINTER, 49, Episcopalian, professor of ethics and society. Having earned a Ph.D. in sociology at Harvard, he went on to be a pioneer of church renewal and writer of the provocative Suburban Captivity of the Churches. >ROBERT GRANT, 48, Episcopalian, professor of New Testament. The top expert...
Shakespeare Wallah is a wry, wistful look at what is left of the English in India. It has been nearly 20 years since the British hauled down the Union Jack and went back to their tight little island. Even so, a poverty-ridden troupe of English Shakespeare players still continues its work, bringing the Bard to the provinces. But India no longer has time for the old gentilities, and wherever the itinerant Shakespeareans try to move their goods (wallah is Hindi for peddler), they meet stiff sales resistance. Indians, like most of the rest of the world, have forsaken...
Connolly dates the movement from about a hundred years ago when the word modernity first appeared in its current meaning. (It was coined, says Connolly, in 1858, although its first actual use is attributed by the Oxford English Dictionary to "Hakewilfs Apologie" in 1627.) He sees the Modern Movement as virtually over by the end of the '30s. Only now is it possible to see the scope and define the shape of a vast revolution in consciousness...