Word: modern
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Expectably enough, Gogarten attributes the revolt against churchly control of modern life to science and the industrial revolution. But this revolt could not have been achieved, he argues, without the broader aspect of secularization, which has its origins in the prophetic message of Judaism and Christianity. In ancient times, says Gogarten, man envisioned himself as a creature entwined with and contained by a divinized cosmos. The uniqueness of Judaism, and more especially of Christianity, was that it challenged this narrow and self-limited view of life, and proclaimed man's freedom under God within the world. As St. Paul...
Billy Graham's appearance as a main speaker before the National Council of Churches' triennial assembly in Miami last week threw into one arena the two divergent operational concepts of modern-day Christianity: Graham's concern for the individual soul and the council's stress on involvement with the world. To many, these approaches have seemed opposites; the mere fact of Gra ham's invitation and acceptance was a bit of an eyebrow raiser. But Graham neatly managed to synthesize his own modified views and the council's: he said that social action...
True, walls slanted like adobe slabs, windows were kept to narrow slits and the roof was flat. But Architect Kruger had proposed making a trim, circular building that resembled a massive beveled cogwheel. To historical buffs, it looked altogether too modern...
Wassily Kandinsky was one of the first modern artists to put abstraction into the visual vocabulary of 20th century painting. Yet roots of Kandinsky's modernism lie more in the soul than in any scientific mood. For him, folk art with its romance and spiritual energy was a vital source, just as it was for his contemporary Stravinsky, who made brightly violent music, such as The Firebird, out of traditional Russian folk tales, and the sculptor Brancusi, who derived his mythical Maiastra bird from a Rumanian fairy tale...
...Liveright, still strapped, was ready to unload his Modern Library, a shelf of 950 reprint classics whose only liability was a distinct and unpleasant odor emanating from the binding glue. Cerf rounded up Donald Klopfer, put the arm on his Wall Street uncle, and snapped up the Modern Library, smell and all, for $200,000. Within three years, Klopfer and Cerf, having retired their debts, decided to branch out by publishing a few new books at random. Thus was Random House born...