Word: masterful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Long Beach, Calif., the Rev. Marjoe Gortner married Sailor Raymond Miller, 23, and Alma Brown, 21. Master Gortner, who was ordained last October in the Old Time Faith Church, is four years old. His father, who is a minister in the same sect, assured everybody concerned that the marriage ceremony was perfectly legal...
...reporter inside his studio in the Riviera hill town of Vence, the old man is apt to have a surprise up his sleeve. This week in the New York Times Sunday magazine, one of Matisse's most recent visitors, Joseph A. Barry, reported his latest. Matisse, past master of charm and cheerfulness, was designing a chapel...
Critics, artists and churchmen have been unanimous in their praise and acceptance of Sallman's painting. No other portrayal of the Master has met with so wide an acceptance in so short a time. The enthusiasm for this "Head of Christ" created a demand for other religious subjects by Sallman; many of these subjects are now available at art stores and church goods stores...
...accusing my accusers. If, from time to time, I must cast a light upon conditions, it is only a revelation of my country's surging pain ... I pray for the world of justice and brotherly love; I pray for those who, in the words of my Master, know not what they are doing. I forgive them with all my heart...
...Gloves again reveals Sartre's ability to melodramatize ideas, to make a story suddenly flash with "theater" or a speech with intensity. But Red Gloves takes a good half of the evening to become interesting, and never becomes impressive. Between the two extremes of which Sartre is master-the phony thrill and the incisive speech-lies a whole human world he barely grazes; his situations ring hollow, his people seem paperbacked. Only Hoederer, in Actor Boyer's fine portrayal, has shape or color; indeed, the best of Red Gloves is what Boyer brings...