Word: thinker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Handsome Apple. St. Thomas Aquinas, the most profound thinker of the Middle Ages, declared that contraception "does injury to God." Nonetheless, says Noonan, the Scholastic theologians of the 13th century also began to abandon Augustine's grim view that sex apart from procreation was sinful. Aquinas' mentor, St. Albert the Great, tentatively proposed that sexual intercourse, since it was ordained by God, might have a value in itself. And while Renaissance churchmen still denounced contraception, a few pioneering thinkers were beginning to talk about the human values of sex. In the 15th century, Martin le Maistre of Paris...
...Italian history mixes its satire with equal parts of compassion, reminiscence and rue. Tognazzi is the perfect dupe, a tragicomic caricature. Spouting patriotic songs and slogans, he is dispatched to Abruzzi to capture and bring back to Rome a Professor Bonafe (Georges Wilson), described as "the greatest living thinker." He gets the prisoner into the sidecar of his motorcycle, but the partisans take potshots at it, the Allies drop bombs around it, and the Nazis requisition it. He switches to a German amphibious vehicle that sinks. He finds a Fascist bicycle-built-for-two and rides triumphantly into the Eternal...
Under the pensive gaze of Rodin's Thinker, mounting the show took the Modern's Director René d'Harnoncourt a full month. "For example," he said, "there was the problem of installing a 73-ft. chain to support Frederick Kiesler's Last Judgment. The museum was most helpful, but Rodin faces keep popping out in the strangest places...
...wish to believe, love." What Martin Buber taught, he also lived. A lifelong Zionist, the century's greatest Jewish thinker nonetheless preached friendship for the Arabs of Palestine. He was Judaism's first ecumenist, who revered Jesus as much as a Jew might, and gently, unpolemically defined the gap that only God could bridge between the two types of Biblical faith. A leader of German Judaism until he went to Palestine in 1938, Buber fought Nazism with patriarchal dignity; yet he accepted an award from a German university a few years after the war and begged Israel...
...Revolution. At the penultimate performance, an outfit called Le Groupe Panique smashed a huge plaster reproduction of Rodin's Thinker into smithereens, spilling torrents of black ink out of plastic bags. Then, while a girl twisted the arms, legs and heads from plastic dolls, another girl stood by beatifically as a grave-faced artist shaved her groin. Later, Beat Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti intoned his latest work while a naked couple made love vertically in a burlap bag, black light playing on their shoulders. "I should stop it," moaned Director Davis, "but if I do, there will be 28 times...