Word: movement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...second variety, Schapiro studies Van Gogh's "Crows Over the What Fields" in an attempt to understand the artist's last painting before suicide. This psychological essay probes the mood of the painter, analyzing Van Gogh's artistic devices. Schapiro points to the loss of focus, the uncertain movement and orientation and the unstable brush strokes that contrast with the painter's style in earlier pictures. In addition to noting Van Gogh's stylistic decay Schapiro adds that the painter was aware of this decay; thus his unusual attempt at structuring a painting...
Harvey G. Cox. Thomas Professor of Divinity and Sampson's faculty adviser, remembered Sampson as "quite a serious student. He was very motivated to a helping and serving life." Sampson had participated in the anti-war movement while at the Div. School...
...turned down by the Brandeis administration for what I can only believe to be political reasons," Richard A. Cloward, professor of social work at Columbia University, said yesterday. Cloward said he has always been "on the left" and is involved in the civil rights movement...
Rainwater said that, in Cloward's writings and political activity, he has never come close to breaking the law or acted improperly for a professor. Cloward is the author of "Regulating the Poor" and "Poor People's Movement...
...first broadcasts were religious sermons from his Shrine of the Little Flower Church outside Detroit, but soon he began voicing the discontent of the Depression by berating bankers. Heard in 30 million homes, Coughlin called F.D.R. "the great liar and betrayer" and tried to fuel a third-party movement. He preached against Jews and Communists, among others, and the Catholic Church finally silenced all broadcasts and writings in 1942. Despite his reputation as a demagogue, Coughlin remained a parish priest who served quietly until his retirement...