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...CHRISTIAN IDEA OF EDUCATION, a seminar at Kent School, including papers and discussions by Stephen F. Bayne, Jr., Georges Florovsky, E. Harris Harbison, Jacques Maritain, John Courtney Murray, Reinhold Niebuhr, Alan Paton, William G. Pollard, and Massey H. Shepherd, Jr.; edited by Edmund Fuller, Yale University Press, 265 pages...
Most of the thinkers represented in the Kent School symposium believe that while revivalism is seldom Christian in any important sense, it can be the beginning of a real cultural baptism. Their arguments, best presented in the papers by Florovsky, Murray, Pollard, and Niebuhr, are fascinating, if unconvincing...
...Pollard believes that Western culture oscillates between its Judaeo-Christian roots and its Graeco-Roman roots. At most times it is so firmly embedded in one tradition that the other cannot even be understood. Thus the Middle Ages Christianized Aristotle, while the modern age has secularized Jesus. In certain eras, the dominant viewpoint is no longer adequate for coping with reality, and men again grasp the full meaning of the alternative, thereby creating a mysterious Rennaissance. Thus the Alexandrine world was converted to Christianity; thus the Middle Ages were converted to Hellenism; thus the modern Alexandria will be converted once...
...Pollard stands outside art history. The anonymous artist plainly forgot himself and what little he may have known of artistic conventions the moment Dame Pollard's basilisk stare fell upon him. He painted her neither as a tender dream, like Margaret Gibbs, nor as a fleshly reality, like Thomas Smith, but as an apparition. Shrewd as J. P. Morgan, straight as Queen Victoria, she rises out of the night, holding her book like a scepter. The ancient well merited her haunting memorial. One of Boston's original settlers, she bore twelve children, kept a tavern and lived...
Biggest poser for the architects was Pollard's snoring, which has been so loud that his wife Peggy often banished him to a guest room. Wurster, Bernardi & Emmons solved the problem by designing a sort of glass-enclosed sponsor's booth in a corner of the master bedroom. Once the house is finished, Dick may be seen but not heard...