Word: meant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Manhattan's new Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts is also meant to be a showcase for the visual arts. One plaza is already filled with a computerized, illuminated fountain. To adorn another, the center's designers sought a "heroic" sculpture to break up the geometric, travertine-and glass-sided space between four buildings. They picked Britain's monumental Henry Moore (TIME cover, Sept. 21, 1959) to fill the tall order. Last week the largest Moore sculpture ever made arrived-a two-piece bronze whose shells are cast as thin as a paperback whodunit, yet still weigh...
...Dodgers' Maury Wills succeeded; the Giants' Matty Alou failed. Pitchers from both clubs traded beanballs. Marichal low-bridged Wills and Ron Fairly. So Koufax took dead aim at Willie Mays. High with the pitch, Koufax hit the backstop instead, growled: "That was a lousy pitch. I meant it to come a lot closer...
...that Thomas Jefferson "contemplated with solemn reverence"? The answer is that the wall is still there, invulnerable as ever, but that reasonable men have found gates in it that can be opened, yet guarded. Says Presidential Press Secretary Bill Moyers, himself a Baptist teacher: "Separation of church and state meant one thing when government and religion were at cross-purposes. It means something different when they have common purposes...
...Government coalesced on such a scale as now. The ecumenical movement, for one thing, has soothed old Protestant fears of a Roman Catholic-engineered, European-style church state. "When we Protestants talked of separation of church and state," admits Methodist Bishop Gerald Kennedy of Los Angeles, "we really meant that we were afraid of the Catholic Church." He attributes the relaxed attitude to "the two Johns"-Pope John XXIII, whose expressions of love for all men transcended the boundaries of doctrine, and John Kennedy, who convinced even the most wary fundamentalists that a Catholic in the White House...
...that provides for certain assistance to children who attend such schools. The breakdown of hostility has taken place on both sides of the fence: even those who oppose direct aid to church-related schools and colleges recognize the vital educational role they play; schools once fearful that federal aid meant federal control now realize that they cannot survive economically without some measure of Government help...