Word: saints
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Saint & Sinner...
...Thank you for a most informative and forthright account of the story of the Protestant Reformation as seen through the eyes of that intriguing personage, Martin Luther [March 24]. I am grateful that this generation is increasingly developing an appreciation for this remarkable German Christian who was both saint and sinner at the same time. Luther may have rediscovered the Gospel of Jesus Christ, but he belongs to the whole Christian Church and not to Lutherans alone. Your compelling article goes a long way toward making this clear...
...Human Saint. Luther defies easy characterization, however, since his life and work add up to a complex of paradoxes. An authentic spiritual revolutionary, he was at the same time a social and political conservative, wedded to the ideals of feudal society. A limpid preacher of God's majesty and transcendence, he was capable of a four-letter grossness of language. He was the archetype of individual Christian assertion; yet he could be brutally intolerant of dissent, and acquiesced in the suppression of those he considered heretics. Prayerful and beer-loving, sensual and austere, he was the least saintly...
...CRIMSON is pleased to announce the election of Anne P. de Saint Phalle '70 of 130 Walker St. and Philadelphia; William R. Galeota Jr. '70 of Greenough Hall and Columbia, Mo.; Kerry Gruson '69 of 100 Walker St. and Dingle, County Kerry, Ireland; Seth A. Lipsky '68 of Lowell House and Great Barrington; and Richard D. Paisner '70 of Wigglesworth Hall and Providence, R.I., to the News Board...
...Museum directors to loan their most popular showpieces makes the exhibition a disappointment. The exhibition contains no Vermeers and only nine Rembrandts (eight of insignificant quality). The seven paintings by Hals, though over-emphasizing his later work, succeed exceptionally well. The late Portrait of a Woman from the Saint Louis Museum, and the small Portrait of a Man are exceptionally beautiful. They both have the characteristic dark background of Hals' late canvasses, and they demonstrate the virtuosity--particularly in Portrait of a Man--of the abbreviated brush stroke of his later period, and his incredible ability to capture the personality...