Word: popularizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Schillebeeckx (pronounced shill-a-bakes) is an ardent advocate of change and renewal within the church. A Flem ish Belgian who teaches at the University of Nijmegen, he was a major influence on the revolutionary and highly popular "Dutch Catechism" .(TIME, Dec. 1). His voluminous writings, all of which have been published with episcopal imprimaturs, blend insights from Thomas Aquinas and modern existentialists, and his opinions are frequently provocative. He believes, for example, that Mary's perpetual virginity is symbolic rather than a biological fact. The resurrection, he suggests, does not imply the physical recomposition of Jesus' body...
Before the Mongols, porcelain was glazed in one color. Under the Yuan rulers, blue-and-white vessels were developed, and became widely popular. One of the 32 pieces in the Cleveland show belonged to the 17th century Mogul Emperor Shah Jahan, builder of India's Taj Mahal. Among other exports on exhibit are Chinese silks found in Arab tombs in Africa and early carved cinnebar lacquerware, lent by a Japanese temple. But it was in defiance of Mongol tastes that one of the greatest of China's arts-scroll painting-made the largest advance of all. The most...
Troops always attend these "popular rallies. On the way to the meeting places the army shouts slogans like "Long live the Revolution, April 21, 1967"--the day the colonels took over, of course. This time, officers apparently had instructed the 2,000 soldiers to mingle with the crowd in groups of no more than two, and to take off their hats, in order not to be prominent and not to be identified as soldiers in the newspaper photographs...
THERE is a kind of art--playful art let us call it--that is becoming more and more popular as the West declines. This kind of art--it includes Camp, Pop, and a lot of other things I'll talk about later--creates a nervousness in reviewers, an anxiety that the artist is trying to take him in, or put something over on him; he fears he is going to make an ass of himself...
Faculty in several other popular courses-Fine Arts 13, Government 154, and Fine Arts 170--reported some increases in enrollment this year but did not see pass-fail as a cause. Although there was no formal count, fewer than 20 students asked permission to take Fine Arts 13 pass-fail, and in both Gov 154 and Fine Arts 170, only two or three...