Word: modern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...icebox or a sweeper as a gift? A man marries you and says 'You go down in the cellar and do the washing.' The hell with him." Piped Edith M. Stern, a magazine writer: "The mechanical gadgets are just the old-fashioned spinning wheel in modern dress...
...picturing their even more abstract ideas of the forces that move nature. Their paintings, which their underprivileged, impoverished descendants (TIME, Nov. 3) still produce in quantity, have nothing to do with art as civilization knows it. They are not merely for art's sake, like most modern painting, nor are they done in a spirit of reverence, like early Greek and early Renaissance art; and they seldom vary with the individual artists-who are always medicine men. Navajo sand paintings are pure magic with one main purpose: to help heal the sick...
...section of the church, usually defined as 'liberal'. . . has been pathetically eager to relate itself creatively to the achievements of a secular age-so eager, in fact, that it . . . has been inclined to sacrifice every characteristic Christian insight if only it could thereby prove itself intellectually respectable. . . . Modern man's faith in progress is at such complete variance with a history which presents him with ever more perplexing issues . . . that the faith is becoming discredited, and disillusion and despair follow in its wake. Liberal Christianity is involved in this disillusionment. Having sought to make a success story...
...other great failure of Protestantism, says Niebuhr, lies in its "inability to preserve the allegiance of the industrial workers of modern civilization. . . . Protestantism was the religion of the common man in the days of the American frontier. But as frontiersmen graduated into the middle class, the Protestant Church tended to move up one rung in the social ladder and to step down one rung from prophetic vitality to the complacency of the established order. Catholicism, on the other hand, has never lost sight of the social character of man's existence...
Ronald Colman's role is a wonderfully rich present to an actor who is celebrating his 28th year in movies. In all its blends and alternations of darkness & light and of classical, romantic and modern styles, the part is an actor's dream. Colman sits down to it as a veteran gourmet might sit down to the banquet of a lifetime, and polishes it off, savoring every last morsel, straight through to the crumbs on the tablecloth. His performance is a pleasure in itself, but the real delight is to watch his delight in his job. Colman...