Word: saints
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Japan's most cherished paintings and sculptures from the 6th century to the 19th. They were all masterpieces, all precisely naturalistic and all as traditional as tea. On opening day, 25,000 people crushed into the National Gallery to see a regal, 8th century statue of the Buddhist saint Shuho-o, paintings of black-faced thunder gods, delicately colored trees, birds and flowers. A popular favorite: a dryly humorous Scroll of Animals (1100 A.D.) which shows monkeys, rabbits, and frogs playing like merry children. Next stages on the show's tour after a month in Washington: Manhattan, Seattle...
...human nature must somehow be essentially good." He doubts, however, that Merton has put this idea clearly across to his readers. His message, stated mostly in terms of his personal experience, is not sufficiently qualified in the light of Catholic doctrine, Graham objects. "He may well already be the saint of his aspirations; theologically, I am afraid, he is still a young man in a hurry...
...second performance with the Boston Symphony for a joint production of the "Saint Matthew Passion" is set for later in the spring, but the exact date has not been released...
After calling five hotels at Saint-Moritz, Klein located the writer at one of them. Wilder promised to keep him posted on his address as he traveled...
...example, Saint-Cyr, the West Point of France, would be obliged to admit German, Benelux and Italian cadets, and could no longer have sole say over its own curriculum. Nor would France any longer be able to make, buy or sell arms as it sees fit. There was also a serious question whether France could freely exchange its overseas officers-fighting in Indo-China or tied down in colonial trouble spots-with its own officers in the European Army, without five nations' concurrence. These difficulties had led De Gaulle to demand a looser federation, something like an old-fashioned...