Word: presents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kooning's "own image" will still leave a lot of viewers floundering in the broad, thick brush strokes and paint splatters. There is no trace of his earlier furiously hacked and lacerated images of women. In his present works De Kooning, without relenting in either slash or splash, has clearly moved toward landscape. The raw tones that De Kooning himself called "circus colors" are now fresher and brighter; images swim closer and more sturdily to the surface...
...Instead, he recommended legislation so that "a patient suffering agonies of useless pain from an incurable disease could slip away in peace and dignity with the help of a government-appointed, medically qualified referee. I myself would be willing to give Holy Communion to the patient and to be present with the doctor concerned so as to share the responsibility." It is "nonsense," he added, to hold that death "should be 'left to God.' Do we leave birth to God?" Replied Roman Catholic Bishop George P. Dwyer of Leeds: "A doctor may give a drug to relieve pain...
...When St. Francis Xavier and a small group of Portuguese Jesuits introduced the Japanese to Christianity in 1549, their success was striking: in only a little more than a generation there were between 300,000 and 600,000 Christians in the country, which had only a third of its present 91.6 million population. (About half a million are now Christian.) Buddhism was in decline; people were impressed by the Jesuits' European science and their surprising concern for social morality and the sanctity of human life. The success of the new religion soon convinced Japan's feudal warlords that...
Hellenism, by Arnold J. Toynbee. The historian finds lessons for the present in ancient Greece's humanism and worship of city-states, both of which he deplores...
What is necessary is that the minor sports receive minor subsidies. To continue the present "all or nothing" system means that only people with money are perfectly free to select their sport. This is fair neither to the undergraduate nor to the many alumni who have recently given several millions to the athletic program...