Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since then, week after week, TIME has reported the facts and the meaning of events of lasting importance in politics, science, economics, religion and the arts. In the arts this week, TIME focuses on the worldwide works of Architect Edward D. Stone (see COVER), whose U.S. Pavilion will be the showcase for the U.S. at the Brussels World's Fair...
...shards, Gizdulich deduced that the ancient masons had used special chiseling and cutting implements now unknown. Gizdulich designed similar tools and had them made by hand, taught a group of artisans to use them. The pieces of the old bridge were lovingly fitted and pieced out with new stone taken from the same Boboli Gardens quarry that Ammannati had employed. Architect Gizdulich grew so familiar with the ancient plans that he could even detect errors in Ammannati's work. But he concluded they were "adorable errors," and carefully preserved them. Workers pieced together fragments of the four statues...
...church has its revered relics, e.g., some handwrought nails from war-damaged Coventry Cathedral and a stone from the German castle where Martin Luther hid in 1521 while translating and revising the Greek New Testament. But these rank as no more than details blended into the revolutionary design which, says the Rev. Donald Fisher Campbell, senior pastor, "gives a sense of the presence of the Almighty...
This is a tale about a reluctant swami. The setting is Malgudi, a sleepy little Indian town dedicated to daydreaming nonviolence. One of Malgudi's daydreamers is Raju, an ex-jailbird (minor forgery) who camps on a stone slab near a temple and counts the stars. When a troubled villager says, "I have a problem, sir" and Raju hears him out, the stargazer's career as a swami has begun. Soon he gets credit for every good thing that happens in Malgudi. He repays his followers in doubtful oracular wisdom ("What can a crocodile...
...from movie stars such as Marilyn Monroe, Gregory Peck, Marlon Brando and Gary Grant; from playwrights such as Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams and William (The Dark at the Top of the Stairs) Inge; and from novelists such as James (From Here to Eternity) Jones, Irving (Lust for Life) Stone. It owns or represents such TV shows as Wagon Train, Tales oj Wells Fargo, Jack Benny, Ozzie and Harriet, Alfred Hitchcock, Dragnet and This Is Your Life. Revue Productions Inc., one of M.C.A.'s subsidiaries, is Hollywood's biggest producer of TV films, accounts for an estimated...