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...Churches chooses a new General Secretary in Irving Wallace's current novel The Word, it is a contest of political skulduggery between two fiercely ambitious churchmen. When the election is held in real life-as it was last week at the W.C.C.'s Central Committee meeting in Utrecht-it is a much more orderly process, with the maneuvering smoothed over by ecumenical diplomacy. But in other respects the man who won the World Council's chief executive post last week outdid both of Wallace's fictional contenders. He is Philip Alford Potter, 51, a Methodist from...
...prizes in the 100-and 200-meter dashes and the broad jump. He still hikes out on geology field trips when he finds the time, likes to listen to Baroque music at home with his wife Doreen, the daughter of a Jamaican Methodist minister. During an interview in Utrecht with TIME Correspondent Richard Ostling, the General Secretary-elect puffed on cigarillos and sipped a beer. The grandson of a rum distiller, he explained that West Indian Methodists were not as legalistic about alcohol as U.S. Methodists officially were. "My own witness as a young man was not that I would...
Mondrian was one of the great lawgivers of modern art. He was born just short of 100 years ago, at Utrecht in 1872; he died in New York in 1944. To mark his centenary, the Guggenheim Museum has assembled a retrospective which later goes to Bern's Kunstmuseum in Switzerland. The show is a reminder of what "high seriousness"-a quality notably absent from most recent art-can mean in the hands of a master...
...problems of urban blight, restless youth, insufficient housing and environmental pollution hit Europe's urban centers with comparable force, particularly the four major "conurbations" -London with its 11.5 million inhabitants, Paris with 8,000,000, the Rhine-Ruhr complex with 10.5 million, and the Dutch megalopolis, stretching from Utrecht to Rotterdam, with 4,000,000. Britain and the Six have almost identical per capita incomes (from a low of $1,860 for Holland to a high of $2,060 for France), so that their buying power is roughly the same. Another unifying force is the vacation time explosion...
...ESSAY which accompanies the record, Dr. W. H. C. Tenhaeff, Professor of Psychology at the State University of Utrecht, talks of cryptomnesia, the phenomenon by which people produce what seems to be supernaturally inspired work, when in fact they are only calling back to mind forgotten experiences. The example he gives is of a woman who was able to write Arabic quotations, although she was totally innocent of the language. It was later discovered that she had, as a child seen the phrases which she wrote, in her physician's office, and had merely brought them back to mind. This...