Word: trended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...probably in Tournai at the moment when Western art was undergoing its metamorphosis into the style of the Renaissance. It is discussed with reverence in almost every Belgian art course. Done in oil and brushstroked with a miniaturist's love of detail, the altarpiece (see cut) heralds the trend toward realism and shows in a format only 25⅛-in. tall the donors (left), the Annunciation scene and St. Joseph in his workshop, with mousetrap on the windowsill (right). The artist painted window views of Tournai's streets and shops so minutely that only a magnifying glass reveals...
Curiously, the season's other major trend-the show built around a star vocalist-is boomeranging. NBC's Perry Como and Dinah Shore, whose early success inspired the idea, enjoy the personal touch and the production support that still set them apart. Though her ratings have been ungallant, ABC's Patrice Munsel has given TV a welcome fillip of talented sex and voice appeal. But the Pat Boones, Giselle MacKenzies and Patti Pages have drawn neither rating nor rooting, and Guy Mitchell will get the ax at ABC this month. Biggest disappointment: Frank Sinatra, now busily trying...
...Methodist minister cannot serve God and a big corporation at the same time, especially if he is on the corporation's payroll, said Washington's Methodist Bishop G. (for Garfield) Bromley Oxnam at a Washington conference of ministers and laymen. Attacking the current trend toward "industrial chaplains," Bishop Oxnam insisted that "the minister as a paid employee is a contradiction in terms...
...trend, in its more ridiculous moments, may seem inconsequential, but in a democratic society the misuse of the secrecy stamp is in opposition to both good theory and good practice. The public's need to know remains a distinguishing factor between free and slave states...
...whole trend of applications suggests that they are going to run substantially above last year," Jordan said. "This, in turn, will mean that the Admissions Committee will have a substantially harder job," he continued...