Word: modern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...everything works at once: not everything Thurber did, not everything director Robert V. Edgar does. "The Night the Bed Fell," for example, is a wonderful short story, a classic, but too much a narration to succeed on stage. "Gentlemen Shoppers," a happy drunken burlesque of modern fashion salons, should play well, but some sloppy acting by John R. Munger, Christopher Hart and Tom Popovich make it a bit tedious...
...aging Emil Nolde became the only major German expressionist to join the Nazi Party. Much good it did him. For all his Frisian peasant conservatism, the Nazis soon called him a "degenerate" modern artist and stripped his works from German museums. In 1941, he was forbidden to sell his art or even to paint. At 73, Nolde retreated from Berlin to his summer home in Seebull, not far from his birthplace on the North Sea coast-but he did not stop painting. To his diary he revealed: "I still hold my head high, and only to you, my little pictures...
Many Protestant theologians are convinced that the conventional parish is no longer suited to the missionary needs of the modern city. But what should take its place? One answer is provided by Chicago's Ecumenical Institute-a cooperative community of laymen and ministers that regards itself as a "research and training center" for the church of the future...
Since its founding, more than 7,000 ministers and laymen have attended seminars at the institute, while 250 have shared its life as interns and fellows. Many of them agree with Mathews that the institute is able to "articulate the mood, style and pattern of the post-modern world view" in ways that conventional churches cannot. Members of the institute, says Pierce, are "guinea pigs" who offer themselves in experiments that seek to discover "what new life style and structures are necessary" for Christianity's years ahead...
Persona. Director Ingmar Bergman is modern cinema's most persistent observer of the human condition. He examines the Eden that is Sweden and sees-much as Bruegel once did in Flanders-that the occupants are really having a Hell of a time. Persona, his 27th film, fuses two of Bergman's familiar obsessions: personal loneliness and the particular anguish of contemporary woman. It is the story of a great stage actress (Liv Ullman), suddenly become mute and detached while starring in a production of Electra. She is afflicted with what medieval theologians called accidie-a total indifference...