Word: splendids
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three-times-a-week churchgoer (Presbyterian) and a religious magazine editor, I'm so well inundated with religious topics that it takes a really outstanding report like yours on Baptist Billy Graham [TIME, Oct. 25] to bring forth a comment. It was splendid...
...REVIEW "THE ADVENTURES OF HAJJI BABA" : IN THE NAME OF ALLAH THE COMPASSIONATE, THE MERCIFUL, O GREAT AND ALL-SEEING SPLENDID TIME, I WILL AGREE TO SEND YOU FORTHWITH A DANCING GIRL FROM ISPAHAN IF YOU CAN PROVE ONE SET USED IN "HAJJI BABA" WAS NOT DESIGNED AND BUILT ESPECIALLY FOR THIS LUSCIOUS PERSIAN CINEMASCOPE...
...sinuous as Chinese brush drawing, clearcut as Persian miniatures, and sometimes as flat as Turkish rugs; his art had ancestors around the globe. Beauty of the most serene and sensuous sort, achieved by the simplest means possible, was always his goal. He never tired of it, and consistently splendid triumphs of the pursuit flowed from his brush until he died. No 20th century painter had higher esthetic standards-or met them more often...
...first five minutes Actor Guin ness has a splendid whack at Chesterton's old dear: egg on the cassock, shy peer over specks askew, sedentary hobble, sly little grin. But in the long run, it becomes painfully clear that while Comedian Guinness can do no wrong as a sanctimonious rogue (The Lavender Hill Mob, The Captain's Paradise), it is just about impossible to do right by a roguish saint...
MANHATTAN'S staid Frick Collection last week put on display the elaborately splendid painting opposite. Begun by Jan van Eyck, and finished after his death by his disciple Petrus Christus, it has the grace and precision, the atmosphere of Tightness and relaxation, common to Early Flemish masterpieces. The picture shows the Virgin and Child flanked by Saints Barbara and Elizabeth of Hungary. Kneeling in adoration is the Carthusian prior who commissioned the painting for his church in 1441. Acquired a century ago by Paris' Baron de Rothschild, the picture has now passed to the Frick-for a rumored...