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...three-Odilon Redon, Gustave Moreau and Rodolphe Bresdin-only Redon is well known today, though more for his glowing flower pieces than for his excursions into eeriness. Moreau is a clouded memory, and if Bresdin is remembered at all, it is primarily as Redon's teacher. The exhibition links the three as fathers of surrealism...
...heaps of fruit. In the afternoon the womenfolk gathered in the big kitchen to prepare scalloped oysters and smoked turkey, fried chicken and black-eyed peas (cooked 24 hours), pot roast and cracklin' bread. The men strolled outside with their cigars, their vests unbuttoned, and examined the flower beds, kicked the tires on the model T, or organized a game of "touch" with the youngsters. Later, firecrackers blazed in the night...
...presence of Christians in the secular world is very important." Dr. Takenaka brought up a problem that was raised again and again among the younger churches-that of making Christianity indigenous to the East through syncretism, the deliberate borrowing from other religions. "We have the long-established art of flower arranging in Japan," he said, "and I once asked a lady who was a famous flower arranger to portray the Crucifixion in flowers. It is syncretism to arrange flowers to represent Christ, but we do not make the mistake of worshiping the flowers...
...presented her with a red flower...
Danny Kaye Tells Six Stories from Faraway Places (Golden). One of the world's most inveterate collectors of tales offers some fine new ones from Scotland, Ethiopia, Sweden, Russia, Viet Nam. Narrator Kaye is as good as he ever was at making his gaudily disjointed visions flower in the listener's mind...