Word: existence
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...room to stretch the eye beyond," seeing it in relation to sky and trees, on murky days, in summer sunshine and snow, surrounded by space, air and light. "Indoors," he says, "one can put a piece of sculpture under a flattering light and kid oneself that what only half exists is already there, but a sculpture almost fails to exist under the diffused light of the open if it isn't fully conceived in the round...
...small contribution to U.S. scholarship [July 8] are to be highly commended. Could the reason for this be that the totalitarian nature of Roman Catholicism, with its thought-control mechanisms of censorship, blacklisting, "excommunication" threats, etc., creates an atmosphere in which the necessary spirit of truly free inquiry cannot exist...
...firemen, postal workers and policemen. In one New Jersey community the police station is practically a hiring hall for housewives who want seasonal help in putting up storm windows or cleaning cellars. What is new is the rapid spread of moonlighting into high-paying fields where it did not exist before, or was not important. In Akron, where 30,000 rubber workers are on a six-hour day and a six-day week, 50% have more than one job. One in five of these actually works two full shifts in a rubber plant...
...world and especially U.S. leadership faces up to the twin probabilities that poverty can be universally extinguished and that war means universal extinction, then, argues Berle hopefully, "opportunity does exist for a century of peace . . . more soundly based even than that of the Victorian...
...Some ministers have used bad taste in criticizing Graham, and one said the Holy Spirit couldn't exist in the Garden. But what started in the Garden of Eden and reached its finest moment in the Garden of Gethsemane should be brought out of those gardens and into the present. Madison Square Garden is as good a place as any for that. We are fearful simply that the effort has no continuity...