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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ming ceramics, both plain white and bright-colored, were more distinctive products of the age. Of the two shown here, the underworld god at left has a clenched intensity seldom equaled in Western sculpture; the Oriental Apollo at right, riding a rooster into the dawn light, is no less intense in his calmness. Both ceramics share the one quality that Chinese artists have always considered of first importance: a linear fluency like that of clouds driven before a gale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: FLAMBOYANT & FLUENT | 5/19/1952 | See Source »

...batsman Win Rickards will rejoin the cricket team this Sunday for a game against a local team made up of West Indian nationals. The match will be played at Franklin Field, Jamaica Plain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cricket Team Plays Boston West Indian Club on Sunday | 5/16/1952 | See Source »

Adolphe Menjou, almost unrecognizable without his moustache and cutaway, tracks down the slayer in the unspectacular method of a common, garden variety of plain clothes...

Author: By Lawrence D. Savadove, | Title: The Sniper | 5/14/1952 | See Source »

...fight to get better wages fc Filipino workers, Jesuit Father Walter I Hogan, Manila's "labor priest," has mad himself some formidable enemies (TIMI March 12, 1951). But he has had the COE consistent support of Papal Nuncio Egidi Vagnozzi, a brisk, 46-year-old Italia whose plain speaking long ago got him th nickname of "II Americano" in Vatica circles. Since his arrival 2½-years ago Archbishop Vagnozzi has given heavy be hind-the-scenes support to the efforts of Roman Catholics like Philadelphian He gan to give Filipinos a fresh deal before the Communists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Body & Soul | 5/12/1952 | See Source »

Bergengruen knows that the Sperones of this world are few indeed. But in lucid, formal, unhurried prose, he makes plain the everlasting need for decency and good faith among imperfect men. Perfect solutions for human problems, he once said, are possible only "in the presence of God; but that should . . . not prevent us from continually trying to find a solution within the limitations of our daily lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Morality Whodunit | 5/12/1952 | See Source »

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