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...Ralph Adams Cram, 78, architect, medievalist, little-heeded prophet of a return to the religious and political patterns of the Middle Ages, death came in the fullness of faith last week (in Boston...
...their stately nave & apse, Dr. Sockman's Methodist congregation called on a famed Anglo-Catholic, Medievalist Ralph Adams Cram. Architect Cram is best known for his soaring Gothic fanes-Manhattan's Cathedral of St. John the Divine, the chapels at Princeton and West Point, etc.-but decided that Byzantine would look better on Park Avenue. On a Mediterranean cruise he eyed churches in Greece, Italy and Turkey as models, visited quarries and factories to get the marbles and materials he wanted. At last week's dedication he heaved a sigh of relief because everything had arrived safely...
...Manhattan audience: "If you wish to pray or if you wish to sit in silent meditation in a quiet corner and have music of words, you will get it from this poet. But if you want clarity on human issues, he's out - he's zero . . .antidemocratic . . medievalist . . . royalist . . . and so close to Fascist that I'm off him, to use a truck driver's phrase. And we've got to consider the truck drivers in the present hour, rather than the intellectuals...
...attitudes taken against American expressions of change and progress is that of a cheap, sensational press, of which the Boston American, especially because of its play-up of Granville Hicks, seems to be a hideous example. To increase its profits and effect the destructive editorial policy of a medievalist, the Hearst papers distort and lie about liberal activities to an audience unfortunately always ready to be deceived and aroused...
...rnberg National Museum. On this panel medieval Artist Cranach shows a slim Venus, draped in a diaphanous veil wagging a warning finger at a pug-nosed Cupid who has pulled a honeycomb from a tree, and suffered severe bee stings as a result. In the upper right hand corner Medievalist Cranach appended his moral: Dum Puer Alveola Furatur Mella Cupido, Furanti Digit um Cuspite Ficit Apis. Sic Etiam Nobis Brevis et Peritura Voluptas Quam Petimus Tristi Mixta Dolore Nocet.* Because of the retreat of many of the best early paintings, the show leans heavily on the mystical 19th Century Romantics...