Word: formful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...earlier book, Genetics and Man, published in 1964, Darlington argued that races differ in every imaginable way, and that these differences do not form some spurious scale of merit: they simply and eloquently assert evolution's demand that the species come in as many styles, shapes, personalities and characters as possible, so that the survival of the fittest, in an unpredictable environment, will never be in doubt...
...funerary monument in Rumania, he began work on a kneeling bronze woman. Starting with a violently agitated figure that Rodin might have been proud to acknowledge, Brancusi went through several successively simplified versions until he arrived at the motionless Prayer he finally cast. Though still conventional in form, the mourner's classic calm and smoothed-over details foreshadow aspects of Brancusi's mature work...
Brancusi had found his own style. From then on, he began those drastic reductions of natural shapes that left the human head an egglike form on which the features are barely traced, that found in a delicate wafer of blue, mottled marble the poetic essence of fish, that outlined in metal and stone the soaring flight of a bird...
...collegiality, or shared authority, which was enunciated during Vatican II. Should the Pope rule with only the advice of his bishops, as Rome insists, or should he allow the bishops co-responsibility with him? The same issue was touched on last week at smaller meetings of 29 theologians who form the Pope's theological commission. The theologians came to no hard decision. They did agree, however, that as long as churchmen were "publicly cautious," they could pursue a pluralistic theology, or one that allows controversial views...
Rarely Empty Seats. Fosdick was eventually won over when Rockefeller's congregation agreed to form a new interdenominational church for him. The result was the 2,500 seat, $5 million Riverside Church, above the Hudson River near Columbia University. Topped by a 28-story bell tower, Riverside drew its architectural inspiration from Chartres. Its iconography, however, included Albert Einstein and Ralph Waldo Emerson in addition to Moses and John the Disciple...