Word: lent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...painting a picture, he approaches the canvas as if it were a door to be broken into to reveal the hidden life beyond. Each line, dot or patch of color -for example, in Lent, the orange splash at the right-gives the artist a sensation and suggests the next step he must take...
anding in the middle of New York's garment district, Manhattan ter has lent its shelter and its ellent acoustics to a wide variety adical movements. Earl Browder to hold forth there in the hey- of the Party; both the Fur kers and the staunchly antiinist Garment Workers met e to inveigh against the bosses, inst capitalism, and against each r. Even the murals on the walls quare-jawed, muscular proletar- "building the industry of rica" -- call to mind the days tenement-dwellers transcend- the squalidness of their daily while singing "We Shall Not Moved...
...called out 50 times, some 6,995 people had reported into the city's hospitals for treatment of bruises and wounds, and another 2,350 had been hauled in by the cops whose charge books recorded 13 murders, three suicides, 477 fights and 87 assaults. After that came Lent. The church might not approve of all that went on, but there were earnest psychologists who argued that there were therapeutic dividends from thousands of repressions relaxed and frustrations banished...
Should animals observe Lent? In his Lenten pastoral letter, Britain's William Cardinal Godfrey, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, suggested that 1) Catholic families observe Ember Friday (Feb. 24) by fasting and donating the money thus saved to relief of the "hungry and starving," and 2) pets be fed with less expensive foods. "A plump and pampered poodle might run all the more gaily after a reduced diet, simpler fare, and perhaps after having been denied a visit to the hair stylist. If this suggestion seems odd, turn to the third chapter of the Book of Jonas, in which...
...Murray, decided to warn the public by putting on a special show of fake Turners along with some originals. The idea quickly spread to other departments, and even to collectors and connoisseurs on the outside. Art Historian Sir Kenneth Clark contributed a 17th century unicorn horn; Sir Alister Hardy lent his mummified mermaid. From the museum's storerooms came the famed fabricated Piltdown man (TIME, Nov. 30, 1953), an Etruscan sarcophagus that was once the pride of the departments of antiquities, and the bust of Julius Caesar that graced the pages of Latin textbooks everywhere until...