Word: movement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rhythm of line which focuses the eye on the divine figure. His outstretched arms and stern face at once accuse and protect. The deep blue of the sky highlights the figures and at the same time expresses the mystery and fearfulness of heaven, while the whirling lines intensify the movement. But though the colors are forceful and appropriate, it is Blake's drawing that gives to the paintings a supernatural greatness...
...times, as in "Simon Prophesying Over the infant Christ," the composition seems artificial and the colors weak. The composition of all the works is contrived, but Blake usually uses his contemporary conventions to produce a heightened effect, and only seldom does he fail. Generally the movement flows upward and inward toward the center, where often a great figure of good or evil protects or destroys. Sometimes the composition is unconventional, as in "Lucia Carrying Dante in his Sleep," where the strange, vivid seen, the striking composition, and the ennobled character of the figures make one realize that William Blake...
...State of Massachusetts executed Sacco and Vanzetti for murder, but only two years later the Encyclopedia Britannica recorded that ". . . public opinion of the world felt the execution had taken place less upon the evidence than for the crime of holding extreme opinions." Today there is a more insidious movement spreading over the nation than the red hysteria that engulfed the early twenties. "The crime of holding extreme opinions" becomes a graver offense each day as more and more individuals do not express their true political beliefs for fear of economic and social organization...
...tragedy. The specific time and place of the story become only details in the portrayal of a man who has sold the modern equivalent of his Faustian soul, all his ties with society. For the price of two passages to America, he betrays a friend in the Irish Resistance movement, and as he walks through Dublin at night, afraid of everyone, he becomes a Judas, and a truly tragic figure. While the picture takes him through one night of repentance, drinking, boasting, but mainly fear, we see every side of a man who tries to hide from himself, and finally...
...simple ceremony, launching the United Church of South India last fortnight, marks the first organic union between episcopal and "free-church" Protestant churches-the greatest stride so far in the 20th Century's growing ecumenical movement. Methodists, Anglicans, Presbyterians, Congregationalists and Reformed have united in a common church, common canons and a common clergy...