Word: saint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That is not the worst purpose a country can have. Some politicians and sociologists point out that democracy in Germany could not have risen or lasted had it not been for material wellbeing. Ludwig Erhard, the patron saint of that wellbeing, himself feels that his country needs a greater sense of national purpose. Perhaps a sense of being at the heart of the West's defenses against Communism may yet prove to be enough purpose for any nation. To crystallize that sense beyond the present uncertainties and to help build the structure that must contain it, is a task...
...SAINT GENET, by Jean-Paul Sartre. The eminent existentialist argues that Jean Genet, thief, pederast, poet, pornographer, playwright (The Blacks), is a walking allegory of modern...
...amidst the tumult, the body of Edith Piaf, along with her cherished good luck charms, a stuffed rabbit, squirrel and lion, was lowered into its grave. It was 6 p.m. before the last of the mourners departed, leaving behind on her grave notes, poems, pictures of her favorite saint (Theresa), a sailor's beret and a French Foreign Legionnaire's epaulet...
Before its channel to the sea silted up, Bruges was a thriving port, grown wealthy under its Burgundian duke, Philip the Good, from banking and the wool trade with England. The prince's financial adviser, Hippolytus de Berthoz, presumably commissioned both triptychs to honor his saint's name. The heraldry painted on the outer faces of the triptych suggests that it was done some time between 1480 and 1494, almost certainly by a master painter in the Guild of St. Luke, a medieval union that included saddlers and glassworkers...
...artist depended on more than radiant color to entrance his viewers. He extended the action into the flanking panels, breaking boldly out of the boxy frames. The turning necks of tugging horses and the upraised arms of their whipping drivers set up a motion around the spread-eagled saint that sweeps through the three panels like a deadly carrousel, binding them together more than the folding altarpiece's hinges. In depicting the Dark Ages torture of a martyr, the unknown painter of Flanders was stepping forward artistically into the awakening Renaissance...