Word: proclaimer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most top fine artists would work haughtily with a refuse any commercial offer or to paint any exhortatory message in it; in Poland, an easier ethic and a powerful state need for propaganda prevail. Thus the common poster, which may proclaim no loftier message than the ordinary American billboard, may bear the signature of a top artist. On display last week in the West German city of Essen were 124 posters done between 1951 and 1959 in Poland. The show has traveled all over West Germany, convincing the Germans that in this art form Poland stands as high...
...theology is to be relevant to modern man's predicament, says Garnett, "it must reject the 'atheism' of a 'God' who is hidden beyond man's concrete thought in an immutable eternity impervious to man's tears . . . And it must proclaim by faith a personal God whose life and love and grief are not to be understood as mere symbols that describe nothing in the nature of the ultimate Being itself...
...gods. They portrayed themselves in statues with hands clasped in prayer, their huge, vacant eyes staring heavenward as if they themselves were in a trance. When it came to worship, all distinctions between rich and poor vanished, and the civilization was getting old before the individual presumed to proclaim himself. Even the greatest warrior hero, Sargon, left no known portrait behind him, and all the grand viziers of Sumer were made to look almost exactly alike...
...reason for his smashing victory was that the powerful Roman Catholic Church, although currently feuding with the Gomulka regime, chose not to proclaim its opposition to the Gomulka slate, allowing Catholic voters to vote as they pleased within the narrow choices offered them. Though no real opposition party is allowed, voters are permitted to pick from a slate of state-approved candidates, most of whom must be Communist. In Cracow, a Catholic candidate won more votes than Communist Premier Josef Cyrankiewicz, who was on the same list, and in Wroclaw, a Catholic got more support than Gomulka's Foreign...
...showing everything from naked men and women being pushed into a gas chamber to a sequence of hundreds of victims literally running into a long trench and then being shot dead by SS men. Cried a 24-year-old German girl: "What are we supposed to say? Must we proclaim forever that we are guilty? What more is there to say of such horror...