Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wonder if your artist realized how perfectly the bound crosses behind Bishop Oxnam's picture demonstrate the failure of many modern churches. No longer are church leaders willing to let an individual Christ on an individual cross strive to save an individual soul; rather they must concern themselves with organization...
...Peter Kurd's open-air portrait of his daughter Carol glowed with paternal warmth and offered a modern object lesson in the egg-tempera technique of the Renaissance masters...
Last week 100 pasted pictures went on exhibition in Manhattan's wide-windowed Museum of Modern Art. The museum had fancy frames and a fancy French name for them, collages (rhymes with garage), which was the word Picasso, Braque and Juan Gris had used when they first tried the trick back...
...force. But like the "gentil knights" of the troubadours' verses, it would lay its head in a virgin's lap. A pity, says Ley, to believe that the unicorn is only an ugly rhinoceros, dimly and distantly seen. Perhaps the noble beast had a pleasanter prototype. Modern scientists know, Ley points out, that the horn buds of a calf can be transplanted to the middle of its forehead, where they develop together into a "unicorn" (single horn). The bull with such a horn becomes the leader of the herd. Confident of his strength and position, he can afford...
...Modern Dinosaur? Are any dinosaurs still around? Ley tells of the Ishtar Gate in the ruins of Nebuchadnezzar's Babylon, which is decorated with portraits of the sirrush, a scaly, tall-walking reptile with clawed hind feet like a bird. The drawing is singularly detailed, and like nothing known to modern man until he dug up fossil dinosaurs. Ley thinks that the ancients may have seen something like, a living dinosaur. Perhaps modern man may still see one. Ley cites many descriptions of a dinosaur-like creature that may be roaming the Central African swamps...