Word: layman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That modern art is a frightful thing is an opinion which many a layman shares-and some artists. William Robinson Leigh is one of them. The trouble began, he thinks, with the Algerian wars (1830-47), which made absinthe a French fashion. Artist Leigh, 81, is not the absinthe type, as Manhattan gallerygoers could see last week. West Virginia-born, he spent the Gay Nineties in the Royal Academy at Munich, mastering-between occasional beers -the realistic painting then in demand...
Three years later a Roman Catholic divine, impatient for the long-expected conversion, sent a scout to the Newman camp. "He will come soon," was the excited report. The emissary had noticed that punctilious Newman was wearing a layman's grey trousers-a sign that he considered himself no longer a clergyman...
After Yale (where he always stood first in his class) and Harvard Law, he and younger brother Charles (now the layman president of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America) set up a one-room law office in Cincinnati. The two young Tafts got plenty of business. Uncle Charles owned the Times-Star, and when he died Bob inherited a minority interest in Times-Star stock. He still owns it. Bob declined to join Charles in a fight to reform the corrupt city government; he strung along with the late Boss Rudolph Hynicka, used the machine...
...these and other factors, says Dix, the Communion came to be looked upon more & more as a rite which the priesthood performed for the laity, rather than with it. The congregation came to look, rather than to participate. "Heave it higher, Sir Priest!" was the plea of the medieval layman when he could not see the Host at the consecration...
Commenting on the present boycott on recording, Hanson declared that it damages most the reproduction of serious music. "It takes away from the layman his most powerful means for the development of musical understanding...