Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Western public philosophy is a. shambles. Ways believes, for two principal reasons. First, modern thought has lost the sense of whole truths in a passion for fragmentation and the claim of science to a custody of "the only valid paths to knowledge." Secondly, the nation's intellectuals have lost touch with the magnificent heritage of Christian civilization that the founding fathers understood very well. The signers of the Declaration of Independence pledged their "lives, fortunes and sacred honor" to their new nation. They evidently foresaw a national purpose beyond survival ("lives'"), beyond mere national interest ("fortunes...
...trend and times-tend to award them their prizes. The jury at Chicago's Art Institute gave Richard Talaber, 26, the top prize for just such a picture. At Boston's elaborate summer Arts Festival, the Grand Prize went to a sculptor, Gilbert Franklin, for his safely modern Beach Figure, clean-lined and anonymous as a newel post. But the public has yet to acquire the jurist's inhibitions. Critics see form first in a work of art; the average layman sees content. At Boston's Festival, viewers voted overwhelmingly for Gardner Cox's Robert...
...office, Pope John XXIII made clear that he was not going to change the warm, outgoing nature that had made him a beloved Patriarch of Venice. Last week one more story was added to the lore of the man who is already one of the best-loved Popes of modern times. He has given away his breviary-and to an Anglican. The recipient: Canon Donald Rea. vicar of the Church of St. Peter and St. Paul in Eye, Suffolk, and chairman of the Anglican Confraternity of Unity, founded in 1926 "to restore communion with the Holy...
Ministers feel that the new popularity of confession is a response to the anxieties of the modern world, and a symptom of the growing Protestant shift from services and sermons to personal pastoral care. "We do not emphasize the form," says one pastor. "It must not become a routine." Many ministers hear confessions in their offices, others in the sacristy of the church. Often, pastor and penitent kneel side by side, their eyes on the cross...
...Records, performed in concert halls including the National Gallery of Art. played his own flamenco guitar score for a production of Tennessee Williams' The Purification. He made a bow to jazz by playing in England and Saudi Arabia with the Woody Herman band, has also composed music for modern dance groups, and for the past two years has been combining classics and jazz at the Showboat...