Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...roam the streets of Tokyo, and the police say they are powerless to take preventive action against them. Communist-led strikers and terrorists still control the northern town of Tomakomai (TIME, Oct. 20). In trying to do their duty, policemen, who can be haled before a Bureau of Human Rights for abusing their powers, now take their own photographers along with them to demonstrations just to prove they have not beaten anyone up. The mere suggestion of brutality can mean loss of pay or demotion...
...enough that the Pontiff be gifted, that he know human and divine sciences and that he will have explored and experimented the subtle reasons of diplomacy and politics. That which is above all needed is a saintly Pope . . . The new vicar of Christ should be a bridge between heaven and the earth . . . a bridge between the social classes . . . a bridge among nations, even those who reject and persecute Christian religion...
Golf pros may blow easy putts, a tennis champ double faults, and it is only reasonable to expect on occasion a painter will turn out a turkey, even as great a painter as Rembrandt. But with all due allowances for human frailty, Rembrandt's early St. Bartholomew has long made Rembrandt scholars uneasy. Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum labeled the painting "attributed to Rembrandt" when it was received as a bequest, later returned it to the donor's estate. This week the Worcester (Mass.) Art Museum unveiled a new acquisition that unmasks the mystery: a new version...
James Hanley is the kind of Irishman who gives the impression that his life has been a knockdown, drag-out fight with reality. To enter his literary world is to enter a dark room in which at first the sparse furniture seems made of human bones. But as the slow light comes up through the long narrative, it is made clear that the ribs on the wall are a hatrack, that the upended coffin is a wardrobe and the skull under the bed is a more commonplace utensil...
Quoth John Calvin, "Men should not paint or carve anything but such as can be seen with the eye; so that God's majesty which is too exalted for human sight may not be corrupted by fantasies which have no true agreement therewith." All of which is the puritanical way of expressing the ancient adage, "I know nothing about art but I know what I like...