Word: saws
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...duty cops were arrested for extortion, accused of shaking down a sailor they saw taking a girl into a hotel...
Having married the girl he was going out with (the hasty marriage later ended in divorce), young Tillich marched off to the front as a chaplain. What he saw, he says, "absolutely transformed me." First there was the impact of the "lower classes," with whom he was dealing for the first time; he began to think about their exploitation at the hands of the powers he had taken for granted-the landed aristocracy, the army and the church. "But the real transformation happened at the Battle of Champagne in 1915. A night attack came, and all night long I moved...
...chaos of postwar Germany, Tillich and a group of his fellow intellectuals gathered in Berlin's cafés to discuss the positive possibilities behind the ecstatic iconoclasm of Nietzsche, and to discover new meanings for religion in the great Danish Christian existentialist, Soren Kierkegaard. They saw the uncertainty and ferment around them as a time of kairos-a Greek word for the Scriptural "fullness of time" in which the eternal could penetrate the temporal order. Their prescription for the world was "Religious Socialism." Without a religious foundation, they insisted, "no planned society could avoid its eventual destruction...
...pictures does not give a colorless effect but, like a pebble in a stream bed, hints at a glistening multitude of hues. Grey Borders (see cut) reminds Tàpies of a "well-raked garden in a Zen Buddhist temple," but he is quick to point out that he saw a photo of such a garden only after finishing the picture. Certainly it is both austere and serene; if it also seems pretty empty, it is the emptiness of contemplation, of waiting for enlightenment...
...pictographs. One possible explanation: the paintings are not deliberate copies of the animals but swift tracings of visions such as children see in a flickering fire. Painted by firelight, often one atop another, they have the look of fire shadows. Conceivably the Cro-Magnon artists painted just what they saw looming, falling and gliding along the rough walls of their vast hollow shrine: animals immaterial, yet visible...