Word: foreword
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...history school and service as an art consultant with the OSS in Washington during World War II-Curtis has his international admirers. John Russell, art critic of the London Sunday Times, calls him "one of the last of the great hermits-St. Jerome without the lion." In the foreword to the catalogue for a retrospective of Curtis' work, Clare Boothe Luce observes: "To accept, as Philip Curtis does, that human folly and wisdom alike lead only to death, and still not give way to despair, but to the making of lovely and magic pictures, is the triumph...
This may explain the ominous note struck by Charles C. Johnson Jr., administrator of HEW's Environmental Health Service, in a foreword to the bureau's report. "As in so many other aspects of our environmental situation," he wrote, "the findings are not reassuring with regard to the future...
...uneasy jumble. Some of the sweeping references to the guilt of all Jews were deleted. Others were toned down, but almost imperceptibly: the crucifixion is demanded by "the whole of Jerusalem" instead of "the whole nation." God condemns "these sinners" rather than "this folk." In a new foreword to the text, a local priest argues that the Jews of Jerusalem represent not the "Jewish people" but "all mankind, who by their sins brought about the Lord's death...