Word: theo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...discovery came in Amsterdam, where nine wise-eyes were examining a display of 19th century paintings once owned by Van Gogh's younger brother, Theo. Among them were 15 works by "unknown" artists, and one of them in particular caught the scholars' attention. A small (16 in. by 12 in.) portrait of a frock-coated man, it had never been shown before, and was strangely reminiscent of Van Gogh's Portrait of an Actor, painted in 1888. The subject seemed to be the same man, and was painted in somewhat the same manner, with heavy contours outlining...
...information obtained from refugees and from well-concealed underground sources in the Soviet zone. Three weeks ago Linse gave the West German newspapers his latest data on East zone rearmament. The secret Communist price on Linse's head was believed to be comparable to that on Dr. Theo Friedenau, founder of the Free Jurists, who has escaped several abduction attempts himself...
...THEO. SLADE Chattanooga, Tenn...
...hard. In the quiet music academy outside Brussels where the finalists were lodged, the Russians rose at 6, often started playing before breakfast. Said Houston, Tex. Violinist Fredell Lack, 29: "And you could hear them still going at night when the rest of us went to bed." Exasperated Dutchman Theo Olaf finally complained: "Is it absolutely necessary for you to practice until the middle of the night?" The Russians, who had been aloof at first but warmed up a bit when they asked for borsch and got a Belgian version of it, agreed to cut out some of their night...
Bishop Sherrill's religion has always been profoundly personal rather than theo logical. "The appeal of Christ to one's life is the thing that originally caught me, rather than the Church. At Yale and before, it was Christ's appeal to the individual that attracted me." Unlike some bishops, Sherrill might have been happy in a small parish. His abilities have carried him up and away from the grass-roots lives and problems of his fellowmen, but he has done his best to compensate for his bureaucratic isolation...