Word: garbs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Prettified to the point of sentimentality, four Austrian Baroque sculptures depicting three saints and the Virgin, recall the tendency of that period and that country to sweeten religion. Yet the artist gave these less-than-profound figures and their billowing garb linear fluidity and much plastic interest. Characterized by an adept handling of color, especially pale reds and blue-greens, the Dutch painting portrays Christ on the way to Calvary with expressive, distorted figures...
What makes the Lion of Judah's philanthropy intriguing is the nature of his institution, launched in 1950 with a faculty of cheery young Canadian Jesuits, who teach no religion (by agreement), wear no clerical garb, dress in sports jackets...
...Beat. In Toronto, Ont., University of Toronto Student Ries Karvanque, capitalizing on the beatnik boom, charges $5 for appearing at parties in beatnik garb and letting the guests discuss her, $10 for playing the bongo drums, $15 for reciting beat poetry...