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...prizewinning furniture, which would probably raise no cheers in Grand Rapids, was a plywood table and chair with rod-thin, chrome-plated legs. They were designed by California's solemn, earnest Charles Eames, 39, onetime pupil of famed Finnish modernist Eliel Saarinen. Eames, who designed molded plywood splints for the Navy during the war, is a man who believes that utility is beauty's only garment. He finds the kitchen and bathroom the most beautiful rooms in most U.S. homes. By the same token, Designer Eames explains, "when a chair is comfortable it becomes beautiful...
...experiencing a theological awakening. American Protestantism is fast acquiring a living theology-a far more 'live' theology than either the antimodernist 'Bible-believing' fundamentalism or the modernist 'liberal rationalism' of the last quarter-century. The revival is most obvious among the seminarians, but I see it also among the intellectuals generally, and I believe it is even happening in the general public...
...slithery muck. Roads and airport runways, absorbing summer sun, get as squashy as cranberry bogs. In winter, the warmth of a heated building may seep into the permafrost, allowing floors to sink and walls to wobble drunkenly. Many Alaskan villages, built in defiance of permafrost, look like modernist paintings, their streets slanting sideways and their buildings out of line...
Another braintruster is Mosha Pijade, 55, Jewish Vice President of Yugoslavia's powerless Parliament. He is a greying, walrus-mustached, hunchbacked little man (when he sits at his desk, his legs do not reach the floor), who used to be a journalist, modernist painter and a Belgrade drawing-room lion until Communists were taken seriously. Then he was jailed, spent years studying Chinese, lecturing his jailmates, and translating Das Kapital into Serbo-Croatian...
Gifford's views are those of a forthright "modernist" to whom orthodoxy is merely another word for fossilization. He sees all theology as in constant need of revision and reconstruction in the light of religious experience rather than patristic authority. Dogmatists will find plenty in Dr. Gifford's pages to make them jump. The book's final chapter is an eloquent statement of the position of Protestant liberals. Excerpts...