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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Slogan for the movement, headed by Dr. Elmer G. Homrighausen of Princeton Theological Seminary, is "America for Christ." Combined with the Roman Catholic Holy Year, it may make 1950 the most religion-conscious twelvemonth the modern world has yet known...
...Bible still holds its long-undisputed place at the top of the bestseller list, but to a vast proportion of its modern buyers, it remains a closed book. Texas newspaper Publisher Houston Harte (the San Angelo evening Standard and Standard-Times) often wondered why, especially considering that the Bible is full of dramatic stories and fascinating characters. When Presbyterian Harte asked his friends & neighbors, they agreed that biblical characters are awe-inspiring, all right, but that somehow they are just not like people in real life. Bible-Lover Harte began to think about how to make them more...
Then Alfred Maurer fell into revolutionary company. At Gertrude and Leo Stein's famous Saturday evenings, he met some of the pioneers of modern French painting. Around Paris he caught glimpses of the work of les fauves, the "wild beasts"-Matisse, Rouault, Dufy, Derain -whose daring compositions and brilliant colors were setting French art on its ear. His own academic interiors and portraits looked drab and uninspired by comparison. In 1904, renouncing his old formal ways, he flirted with impressionism and became the first U.S. artist to follow up the experiments of les fauves...
...abstractions had brought him general recognition as a pioneer in modern U.S. art. But for Alfred Maurer himself, the recognition came too late. In 1932, after he was past 100, Louis Maurer died and Alfred moved down from his crowded back room to his father's large, airy quarters. In two weeks, apparently overwhelmed by a sense of failure and loneliness, he went back to his hall bedroom and hanged himself...
Following Burlingame, Elizabeth Janeway, author of "Daisy Kenyon," deplored what she described as a marked tendency among modern writers to fear any kind of power-political or social-and as a result to preach a doctrine of "wilful irresponsibility" in their books. Mrs. Janeway concluded, however, that "we are on an up-curve of talent and ability...and our best writers are, perhaps more than ever, truly concerned with how people live...