Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...once generally regarded by Sunni Muslims as followers of a new heresy. By adopting orthodox beliefs and discarding a rule that limited membership to black Americans, the World Community of Islam in the West, as the movement is now known, has been accepted as being part of the true faith...
...further it slides away, the clearer it becomes that the difference between us and the early moderns was not just one of talent. They were obsessed and inspired, as we no longer are, by the promise of the 20th century and a world made new. Because of the general faith in development, the four decades between 1890 and 1930 make up one of the supreme periods in the cultural history of the West-riven, tragic, dissonant, yet as vigorous as the Italian Renaissance: a rewriting of the contract between man and his symbols...
...areas in which this happened was sculpture. It was perhaps the last time that a sculptor could imagine, in good faith, that he was history's megaphone. The social power of art was still unquestioned, and to change the language of sculpture was, at least potentially, an act of real cultural and moral significance. In those 40 years, the language of sculpture underwent the most searching revision it had had, perhaps in its whole history, and certainly since the time of Bernini and his followers in the 17th century. It moved, to put it roughly, from the lump...
...FAITH HEALER...
This play is literate, wise, perceptive, humane and wryly humorous, but as drama it needs a blood transfusion. Structure may be the chief culprit. Irish Play wright Brian Friel has divided the play into four Rashomon-style monologues. The first and last are spoken by Frank (James Mason), the faith healer, the second by Grace (Clarissa Kaye), his wife, and the third by Teddy (Donal Donnelly), Frank's promotional warmup...