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...spry, wry, spindly man who is at once gentle and unyielding, diffident and daring, Sheeler is a splendid paradox in American art. Neither realists nor abstractionists can claim him, for he merges their domains. More successfully, perhaps, than any other painter, he provides a steady look through highly polished spectacles at the works of modern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Age of Experiment | 2/13/1956 | See Source »

...never been a Communist, he is not willing to swear so for the State Department. Reason: Kent claims that repetition of his earlier denial is "irrelevant" to getting a passport. Result: a passport has thrice been denied to Artist Kent since 1950. Last week, Kent admitted the paradox of his position: "I have spent so much money on lawyers in my fight to get a passport that when I eventually do receive it, I'll have to recover financially so I'll have money to travel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 21, 1955 | 11/21/1955 | See Source »

This contrast, between impassioned declarations that Germany is indivisible and the day to day acknowledgment that it is already divided, is the most striking paradox in Germany today...

Author: By J. ANTHONY Lukas, | Title: Germans and Reunification | 11/9/1955 | See Source »

America is a spiritual paradox: it is, at the same time, the most religious and the most secular nation in the world. From 1949 to 1953, U.S. distribution of the Scriptures jumped 140%. In a recent survey of religious attitudes, more than four-fifths of U.S. citizens said they believed the Bible was the "revealed word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The American Religion | 9/26/1955 | See Source »

Published this week is a sharp-minded investigation of the American religious paradox. In Protestant-Catholic-Jew (Doubleday; $4) Jewish Author-Scholar Will Herberg maintains that both the religiousness and the secularism of the American people derive from much the same sources, and have combined to give the U.S. a religion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The American Religion | 9/26/1955 | See Source »

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