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...quick extemporizing, the youthful Van Dyck also left the canvas with some unresolved problems. The yellow robe of Judas, as he turns to betray Jesus, billows stiffly, forming a disconcerting, nostril-like free form; Peter's violent attack against Malchus (one of the high priest's servants) is nearly thrown off the picture at lower left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: MOMENT OF TREACHERY | 4/7/1958 | See Source »

...Ralph Stutzman, clothed in clerical robe and ego, wants to "come out" of Christianity, presents to earth and heaven the ludicrous spectacle of a man, facing the rock of ages, destruction-bent with peashooter in hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 31, 1958 | 3/31/1958 | See Source »

Added Reporter Jackson: "She has a delicious sense of humor and laughs readily. We all became very good friends, possibly because we all wore the same costume-blue tank suit and white terry-cloth robe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: All About Mamie | 3/17/1958 | See Source »

Last week the university's sartorial rebels were sharply summoned into line by a new handbook that spells out once and for all the color and cut of the proper Oxonian's robe. Compilers of the authentic landbook: meticulous Ralph E. Clifford, lead clerk in the University Registry, and elegant Dennis R. Venables, co-proprietor of one Oxford tailor shop and Dartner in another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Proper Cut & Color | 3/10/1958 | See Source »

...world before joining the Camaldolites eleven years ago. is so devoted to the solitary life that he has special permission to remain in his cell without emerging, even for Mass, more than three times a year. Dom Augustine trudged the Manhattan streets a while in his ankle-length white robe and said: "This is my first look at the outside world in ten years. Well, it's the same old world-very noisy, very crowded. You don't have enough time to pray. So we hermits pray...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Eremitical U.S. | 3/3/1958 | See Source »

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