Word: handly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Radiance, fierce-burning, superhuman intensity of human passion, shines and pours through the torment of Michelangelo's art. His Conversion of St. Paul, commissioned by Pope Paul III in 1542, has lightning in it. The lightning streams down from God's hand upon Paul, to reshape him utterly. This was the work of an artist who would do anything for his work but nothing for reward-a man inspired as St. Paul had been, and forever conscious of the lightning from above that would blaze through...
Shirley reached Albert and seized his hand, "but when I pulled, I could see that his arm was just hanging by a thread." She slipped her arm around him and began to swim for the beach. When she was near enough, a fisherman threw her a line. After they were on the sand, Shirley, a Roman Catholic, scooped up some sea water and let it run over the head of her friend (who had never been baptized and belonged to no specific faith). "I baptize thee in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost,"* said Shirley...
...burdensome disadvantage which should disturb the conscience of the community . . . When Protestants-and other non-Catholics-are ready to view the school problem with sympathy for the economic predicament of a Catholic family of slender means, Protestant concern for religious freedom will be more convincing. On the other hand, there is widespread fear on the part of non-Catholics that any strengthening of the Catholic position in our society must impair the status of other groups, religious and secular. When this fear is removed, Catholics may expect a more sympathetic and reasonable attitude toward the situation in which they find...
Died. Edward Owen Cerf, 41, assistant managing editor of LIFE, onetime senior editor of LIFE, onetime senior editor of TIME; by his own hand (gunshot); in Manhattan. Chicago-born, Oregon-reared Ed Cerf joined TIME as a writer after graduation from Princeton in 1940, the next year went into the Marine Corps, fought at Tarawa, Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, by war's end had risen to the rank of major...
Yakking in the Blue. At the outset, Kerouac warns what he is up to: "The other night I had a dream that I was sitting on the sidewalk on Moody Street. Pawtucketville, Lowell, Mass., with a pencil and paper in my hand saying to myself 'Describe the wrinkly tar of this sidewalk, also the iron pickets of Textile Institute, or the doorway where Lousy and you and G.J.'s always sittin and dont stop to think of words when you do stop, just stop to think of the picture better-and let your mind off yourself in this...