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...year after the death of U.S. Senator Robert A. Taft in July 1953. his friends set up a foundation dedicated to his memory. Soon the foundation decided on a threefold program: 1) scholarships and fellowships, 2) an institute to conduct research in government, 3) a monument in Washington. Last week, after considering hundreds of suggestions, the Robert...
SCULPTOR Carl Milles, 80 years old this week, is a monument to the fact that monuments can be lovely. His conservative colleagues, e.g., Paul Manship, Oronzio Maldarelli, stick to classical patterns, yet come no closer to Praxiteles than a mannequin looks like a man. More radical sculptors such as Henry Moore and Jacob Epstein, on the other hand, often go in for deliberate ugliness of a sort calculated to give ordinary park strollers the heebie jeebies. Milles' monuments are both conservative and alive, both popular and poetic...
...crowded sanctuary of Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church on staid, tree-lined Monument Avenue in Richmond, Va. last week, a pro-segregation clergyman rose and heralded the defeat of his faction in singular language. Said the Rev. Alton J. Shirey: "You flattened us like a steam roller yesterday. Let's not cut the puppy's tail off an inch at a time...
...institution's centenary. The play is being performed before large Washington audiences this week, was seen by TV viewers last week in a 17-minute cut-down version. Cry of Humanity was a monument to Dorothea Lynde Dix (1802-87), the New England schoolteacher who crusaded from Newfoundland to Louisiana for the "moral management" of the insane, persuaded Congress to open St. Elizabeths...
...would have been happiest of all mothers," comments Ovid, "had she only not thought herself the happiest." Over and above the turn of Fortune's wheel, there is an inexorable change-the passage of time and the certainty of death. Like his contemporary, Horace ("I have reared a monument more enduring than bronze"), Ovid was himself a hubristic father to his poems. He was content to die, but not to be forgotten, and proudly he hurls a parting challenge...