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Weeding through 1,600 entries, Corcoran Director Hermann Warner Williams concluded that the pendulum may at last be swinging back to Levine's (and Bierstadt's) way. So far, Williams finds this trend toward more representative subjects only partially successful. Says he: "There is a more or less lost generation of young painters who turned up their noses at the basic disciplines of draftsmanship and just jumped into abstraction. Although they are now trying to use figures, they can't make the switch because they haven't had those early disciplines...
...attack paid off with three first-half goals and the varsity started the third period with the game apparently well in hand. But by the end of the quarter, Brown had scored twice and was threatening to pull even with the Crimson. The pendulum then swung back and the varsity took command of play, scoring twice...
...copies of a 30-page diatribe against A.F.L.-C.I.O. Vice President Walter Reuther, Meet the Man Who Plans to Rule America. Then she asked about the rate for 10,000 more pamphlets, writing Author Joseph P. Kamp that his was "a powerful message which could actually swing the pendulum in California if it could be gotten into the hands of millions of people...
First topic on their agenda: THE HOLY BIBLE, ITS AUTHORITY AND MESSAGE. So far has the pendulum swung from literalist respect for the authority of the Bible, the bishops feel, that even some professing Christians are tending to look upon it as a collection of fairy stories. To combat this tendency, the bishops hope to educate the public to interpret Biblical statements and events in terms of the thought forms of the people who wrote the Scripture down. Said one bishop: "The Bible mustn't be thought of as the Koran is thought of. It hasn...
...Keene walked into the office of K. F. Reynard in Beaumont, Texas, told him a physician had said she was dying of diabetes. Reynard, one of Texas' 400 practicing naturopaths, knew just what to do for her. First he gave her repeated enemas. Next he administered the pendulum test-a piece of steel supported on chains between two rods which he held over Mrs. Keene's heart. "Your heart is beating too fast and the blood pressure is too high," he told her. His diagnosis continued: a large heart lesion which would take a long time to cure...