Word: takeing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...take exception to the statement in your article "Sculpture 1959" [June 15] that "artists have never been asked to do more than reflect the time in which they live." I resent that artists are viewed as sponges that simply soak in "our time" and spew it out on canvas. Artists have in many cultures been expected to produce and have produced art that depicts an "ideal state" of what ought to be. Today, there are artists depicting what ought to be, but they have no listeners among people who are aware of our times and acknowledge their awareness...
...have just read your article, "Sally's Service," [about British Teen-Ager Sally Moore, who rewrote an Anglican church's evening service for more teen-age appeal-June 15]. I think this gal Sally should take another look at what she is doing to God's service and her fellow youths. If she and other teenagers would put down their Elvis records and Mad comics and turn to the Book of Common Prayer and the Bible, they could better understand the Psalms and Apostles' Creed, instead of having to drop them from their service or distort...
...record that served as a model was actually made on July 15, 1958 and shows part of the profile of the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean some 70 miles northeast of St. Thomas, Virgin Islands. Behind the graph paper is a yellow Nansen Bottle, used by oceanographers to take water samples, temperatures, and other deep-water measurements. The sailing ship is the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's pioneer research vessel, the Atlantis...
This Wednesday, from 3-5 p.m., the first of many perennially successful Yard Punches will take place. The students will gather together to consume two kinds of punch, listen to music piped from the steps of (where else but) Memorial Church and converse with some of their 3,849 classmates. These punches will take place on following Wednesdays through August 5, their relaxed atmosphere a means towards the student's winning friends and influencing people...
Esplanade Concerts. Arthur Fieldler conducts members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra in free open-air concerts every evening at 8:30 (except July 4) until July 10 in the Hatch Memorial Shell on the Charles River Esplanade. Take blanket and subway to Charles Station...