Word: modernizations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Down and out in Paris, Lipchitz worked hard at producing the sculptures that are now his most widely esteemed work. Salvation came one day when the rent was nine months' overdue. Merion, Pa. Modern Art Collector Dr. Albert Barnes (inventor of Argyrol) arrived at Lipchitz' studio, bought eight stone carvings, and commissioned five more...
...Remembering that all Holy Scripture is "written for our learning" and that "Our Lord's mind and language were clearly steeped in the Psalter," Lewis prefers to make "some use" of the curses. One of their uses, he found, is to call attention to the same hatreds in modern man's own heart-"we are, after all, blood brothers to these ferocious, self-pitying, barbaric men." Another use: they serve as a reminder that the higher one is, the more one is in danger of falling. "The Jews sinned in this matter worse than the Pagans not because...
...where he harkens to tales about Cottonmouth (Burl Ives), a red-bearded snake charmer off in the Everglades whose band of swamp angels (including such old Thespians as ex-Pug Tony Galento, Clown Emmett Kelly, Jockey Sammy Renick) pick off the wildlife like hungry dogs in a horsemeat factory. Modern hunters would do well to study their technique: every bird they shoot falls within 2 ft. of their boats...
...Modern Outlook. "Almost every anecdote concerning her is an encounter," says Author Kronenberger, and Marlbo-rough's Duchess is so rich in anecdotes that it becomes a series of unforgettable encounters. There are anecdotes in the grand manner-such as old Sarah marching into the law courts to forbid the sale of one of the Duke's presentation swords, crying: "Shall I suffer the sword which my lord would have carried to the gates of Paris to be sent to the pawnbroker's and have the diamonds picked out one by one?" There are anecdotes...
...great biography of Marlborough, Winston Churchill spoke of Sarah's "detached, disdainful, modern outlook upon life"; she resembled, he said, the sort of woman busy "in the public and social agitations of our own day." Author Kronenberger seems to agree with that view. "She was not at all, by happy standards, a great woman," he concludes, but she was forever so "inextinguishably herself" that she "persists even now." Moreover, she was like a great landmark in England's history-the last example of a nation that was changing "from a society of thieves to a nation of shopkeepers...