Word: ordering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Overwhelming white light was once thought to define the sight of God. The flight to Munich leads to a world of luminous order at the Haus der Kunst: icons from the 13th to the 19th centuries, from Greece, Crete, Czechoslovakia, Rumania, Bulgaria. How can God, whose sight no living man has endured, be representable in a picture? The Orthodox were fundamentalists about that evident problem, but subtle ones: as the impression is to the seal that makes it, as the body to the soul, as the accidental to the essential, they reasoned, so the representation is to the spiritual reality...
...University of Texas regents, angered by two student demonstrations, prohibited school officials from negotiating with anyone engaged in "disruptive activity." In October, Texas students blocked the doors to the university's main building with cypress trees that the school had cut down in order to expand the Texas football stadium. The protesters were particularly angered by the administration's decision to rush the cutting; a few hours later an Austin court handed down a restraining order that would have spared the trees. In November, more activists occupied a campus snack bar from which university officials had barred nonstudents...
Southern segregationists suffered another rebuff last week from the Supreme Court. Last fall, in Holmes v. Alexander, the court told 33 Mississippi school districts to desegregate "at once." The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit carried out that order by giving the districts only until Dec. 31. But when 16 more districts in six Southern states came up for consideration last month, the Fifth Circuit faltered; it gave those districts, and by implication the rest of the South, until next fall to integrate student bodies. Last week the Supreme Court knocked down the "next fall" provision and ordered...
...most radical new idea has come, as usual, from The Netherlands, where the Dutch provincial of the Augustinian order has proposed opening the country's 23 Augustinian convents to men and women of any Christian faith, married or single. Life would follow an experimental communal pattern that has not yet been fully worked out. They may not have the chance. Rome?which may remember that both Luther and Erasmus were Augustinians?has threatened to disband the Dutch province if it goes ahead with the project...
...South Africa to sell on the free market, driving down the price. But as the free-market price skidded, European central bankers feared for the value of their own gold reserves. In addition, the Europeans wanted to bring some new South African gold into the international monetary system in order to lessen their dependence on U.S. dollars as a reserve currency...