Word: humanities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...into lead cables. There are insects that live in crude petroleum. There is a clever bug (Dermatobia hominis, an invader from South America) that catches flies, lays its eggs on the flies' legs, then releases them unhurt to carry the larvae to man (where they burrow under the human skin). As Hyslop talks, bugs by the thousand that he has known and loved creep or fly winningly through his memories...
Vigeland preferred nudes, and even his statue of Ludwig van Beethoven leading an orchestra (done in 1906) was naked as a winter oak. The nudes of those early years were realistically proportioned, often graceful. But Vigeland's conception of the human figure changed over the decades, and his work came more & more to reflect his new (and increasingly stereotyped) ideal-thick-bodied women of action and bull-necked men. Among the samples in Frogner Park: a male tossing a female over his shoulders; a male carrying off a female while she, with one leg over his shoulder and another...
Fruit First. In later years he was preoccupied with the cycle of human life, from embryo to the grave. One of the showpieces at Frogner is the Vigeland fountain, surrounded by four groups of "trees of life." One group depicts childhood, with babies dangling from the first tree like ripe fruit...
Both men re-emphasize two facts often forgotten: the world still has millions of mystics, and the most mystical human beings are often among the most practical as well. Merton cites St. Francis, whose visions did not keep him from down-to-earth social work, and the contemporary Catherine de Hueck, with her Roman...
Still Speaking. Jones observes: "Vital religion cannot be maintained and preserved on the theory that God dealt with our human race only in the far past ages, and that the Bible is the only evidence we have that our God is a living, revealing, communicating God. If God ever spoke, He is still speaking ... He is the Great I Am, not a Great...