Word: modernism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...satisfaction in the transformation of simple animal forms into elegant shapes. When old age stopped him from working, Brancusi spent his days fondling his precious "children," as he called his sculptures, covering them with dust cloths every night. And when he willed them to Paris' Museum of Modern Art, he did so on the condition that they be displayed in an accurate reconstruction of the crowded Montparnasse shack in which he-and they-spent so many happy years together...
...since Vatican II had so broad an assembly of prelates, priests and theologians converged on Rome. Never, in modern times, had the seat of the Roman Catholic Church itself been under such combined attack from visitors. At official meetings of bishops and theologians and at a completely unofficial assembly of priests, the central if subtle topic of discussion in Rome this week will be the authority of Pope Paul VI -and the possibility of limiting...
...great church rarely had empty seats when Fosdick took the pulpit. His messages reached others across the nation by way of 32 books and a long-lived Sunday radio series. Fosdick's eloquent "life-situation preaching," which incisively related modern theology to everyday situations, was hardly spontaneous. He shut himself off from callers each day to compose his highly literate discourses replete even with articulate jokes that friends called "Fosdickettes." As he observed: "A last-minute sermon preparer is not doing a good job or giving the congregation what it deserves...
...basic change in the government's economic thinking. Israel's Zionist founders scorned commerce and were more interested in agriculture and socialist ideology than in industry. Thus the Jewish talent for business was late to bloom in Israel. Civilian managers often lacked the skills to run modern industrial corporations or to deal with foreign investors on anything like equal terms. Lately, the government has concluded that Israel's future security depends almost as much on a strong economy as on a tough army. Last year the gross national product increased 13%, to $4 billion, and overall investment...
Still, the proceedings-adapted from Peter Shaffer's opulent play-are well managed by Director Irving Lerner in a style that might be called Eisenstein modern, and devotees of the Hollywood spectacular will cherish the bravado of the two leading actors. Robert Shaw bellows and glowers in his ornate armor like a psyched-up Errol Flynn. Christopher Plummer, in cloak, loincloth, gold necklaces and flowing hair, looks like the lead singer of a particularly exotic rock group, and his attempts at a Peruvian dialect occasionally make him sound like one. His performance is unabashed camp, consisting about equally...