Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Inevitably, the project came under fire, especially during the later years of construction. A religious journal complained that "a pilgrim church cannot spend its time, thought and money on monumental buildings." An anonymous critic painted on an outside wall: "Christ was poor and homeless. Two-thirds of humanity starve...
...real sense the abstract expressionists in their early years were like religious artists without a context, practicing a deeply felt but homeless (and culturally impossible) totemism. Some, like Pollock, drew direct inspiration from Southwest Indian art, transforming it-as in The Key, 1946-into the congested, baroque rhetoric of shape which would later be refined as the allover skeins and webs of his drip paintings. Still and Rothko regarded their art as mediumistic: it was, Still declared, a way of "being with in a revelation," and this kind of priestly bombast was a regular feature of abstract expressionist utterances. Painting...
...Shah and his wife, Empress Fara, appealed to Iranians to contribute to a relief fund. Tens of thousands of Iranians remain homeless after the earthquake, and government officials expressed concern that the severely cold nights and hot days would endanger the health of those remaining without shelter...
...disclose our deepest experiences of the world. Boarding the train, reading the newspaper contemplating the objects in his study he dwells on the mystery that the world exists at all. Late at night, he gazes at the stars, infused with a sensation that men are "strangers in the universe . . . homeless within the world." In these pages, the mystery of transience and death declares itself with a poignant insistence...
...Shells land every three minutes. In the Phalangist stronghold of Ain Rumanneh, every house has been hit and many leveled. One man who ran upstairs during a lull to salvage an old family heirloom had his legs blown off. The guns keep firing, the Phalange radio says hundreds are homeless, and it's hard to watch and not feel sorry for us all. You would think we had had enough...