Word: respecters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun or the wide rising plains, the mountains and the seas. He means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect...
...long-wed "A.P." snapped back with a peppery article in the Daily Express: "For 38 years I have given practical proof of my respect for 'Christian marriage' . . . Most of us, I am sure, whether we recognize 'Our Lord's authority' or not, have the same 'ideal' of marriage as the editor ... I hate to use the word 'humbug' in any controversy; but let me say that the Voice of the Church has behind it some very loose and inconsistent thinking . . . If a man divorces his first wife after five years...
...high-style school of U.S. art in the late '30s, is out of fashion today-but one of the A students of that school who still commands attention is dour Jack Levine, 37. Even abstractionists, today's darlings (whom he sneeringly refers to as "Space Cadets"), respect his work; and conservative as well as advance-guard museums collect it. This fall Levine's paintings will get more attention than ever before: a retrospective show opens this month at Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art, and will be seen later at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center...
...dawn of the Renaissance, a Humanist was a scholarly Christian interested in reviving classical philosophy and literature. Since then the title has undergone a sea change. People who call themselves "humanists" nowadays generally have a vague but smiling faith in human progress, an awed respect for natural science and psychology, and a strong conviction that man can get along in this world without...
...respect, Kate agrees with some of her critics: "I've never considered myself necessarily an actress. I've always felt I might do something else one day -something in which I won't be personally so prominent. And it will be something where I don't have to try to sell myself, which is a humiliating endeavor, although very well paid. I've always had a strange and strong dream that if I stopped and went back to Hartford, I wouldn't remember a thing about my acting career." She paused meditatively, and added...