Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Arthur Deakin, Ernie Bevin's successor as head of the powerful Transport and General Workers' Union (1,250,000 members), called on British Labor to oust Communists from their high councils*: "The activities of the Communists within the trade unions are mainly directed to propagating their political faith. . . . We cannot afford to allow the Communists' attempted infiltration into and domination of the trade unions to succeed...
Great religious art requires a faith and a tradition. Once the art of Christendom had both. Last week the world, seldom in history so much in need of faith, looked to its artists at Christmas time for inspiration adequate to its need, and found little or none. For modern artists are conspicuously unblessed by faith or tradition...
...depended as much on their times as on themselves, and what they brought was sometimes meaningful, sometimes beautiful, but not always both together. If the early Christians who painted frescoes by candlelight in the catacombs of Rome had not sufficient skill to match the underground fire of their faith, Raphael, who worked with consummate grace for a triumphant Church, lacked their pent force...
...paint Him. It was an age in which Florentines could put in a contract, besides the mundane measurements, the stipulation that their cathedral be designed "so as to be worthy of a heart expanded to much greatness." That spirit suffused the whole city; the images of its faith stood everywhere. They were at least as close and familiar as the Hollywood dreamworld is today, and more vivid -especially at Christmas...
Blood in the Landscape. By the chilling glare of the atom, the dawn of the Renaissance seems a time of earthly happiness. It was indeed an age of Faith and Hope, but not often of Charity. Revenge was a point of honor, and perennial feuds cursed the children of families and states alike. The blood of the unjustly slain, which flows like an ever-widening river through the embattled landscape of European history, was already running deep...