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Dibelius' objection to Nazism and Communism was mainly theological rather than political: both ideologies, he believed, subverted the Christian faith. An ecumenical pioneer who helped found the World Council of Churches, Dibelius was devoutly evangelical as well as Evangelical. In his sermons he preached his conviction that the Gospel was genuinely God's everlasting, ever-valid word to man. "Lord My God," he wrote in his autobiography, "Your word preserved me from skepticism and contempt, those characteristics of an age alienated from...
...death in the anguished presence of the child's mother. She decapitates a young goat, and gnaws on the animal's entrails with her lips dripping blood. All this is meant to confound, amaze, and dismay, to dramatize the central dictum of Antonin Artaud, the French pioneer of this type of theater who said: "Everything that acts is a cruelty...
...becoming hard to find. Yet, the curiosity of the most inventive thinkers in every field has always extended far beyond the limits of a single discipline. Leonardo Da Vinci is as famous for his inventions as for his paintings, and the story-teller Lewis Carroll was a pioneer in mathematics and photography. Meyer Schapiro, the 1967 Charles Eliot Norton lecturer, combines this same curiosity and inventiveness with a profound, human sensitivity. While he is an art historian by profession he is conversant with subjects as diverse as semiotics and Freudian psychology...
Improbable Pioneer. As the smallest (5 ft. 7 in.), most reticent of the seven original astronauts chosen in 1959, Gus Grissom seemed an improbable space pioneer. Yet he was one of the most talented and experienced of some 50 spacemen the U.S. has trained to date. Rejected by the Air Corps during World War II because he was under age, Grissom applied again when he turned 18, spent his wartime service as an aviation cadet. After his discharge, he got a mechanical-engineering degree at Purdue before rejoining the Air Force in 1950 to stay. He flew 100 combat missions...
...housewares manufacturers them selves lost $25 million in merchandise and displays. Some products were prototypes rushed to Chicago to impress the 60,000 buyers who would have wandered through McCormick Place during the five-day show. There were other irreplaceable losses: the pioneer Webcor wire recorder was part of the ashes, and so were six original 1921-model Dormeyer mixers. Still missing were $25,000 worth of diamonds that were to have been prizes...