Word: eternall
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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—FAREWELL BOWEN — A LONG ETERNAL
Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum is less concerned with contemporary art than with the possibly eternal; in general, it leaves purchases of recent art to others. But last week the museum announced the purchase of a work by U.S. Sculptor William Zorach, 65. The Met's new sculpture is...
Among many readable books of true adventure, perhaps the most exciting was Ann Davison's Last Voyage, the tense report of a tragic effort, made with her husband, to cross the Atlantic in a small boat. Aldous Huxley made an appearance with an urbane history of some 17th century...
More important was the problem of religious individuality. Claudel gloried in Catholicism as a "closed system," and frankly stated that because "departures from [Catholic] doctrine involve the soul in terrible risk of eternal damnation, [the church] cannot admit what people call liberty of thought . . ." Gide, bred in a tradition of...
"One of the constant dangers to the religious spirit in a country such as ours is the tendency to regard religion itself simply as the fruit of pious sentiment; or to hold, as the doctrinal basis of religion, what we may call the common factor in the religious opinions held...