Word: viewings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Published last week were two new additions to the growing literature on the Dead Sea Scrolls, taking sharply contrasting points of view...
...stage magic that delighted New York City audiences as if they were children at their first puppet show. When Teresina (Kirsten Ralov) is turned into a naiad, she kneels in a pink gown, then suddenly stands up dressed in green seaweed. Later, with as little fanfare and in full view, she suddenly switches back to pink...
...same might be said of the controversy which has raged around their contents. At this point, however, it might be healthy to stand back a little from the din and furor and clouds of dust and try to appreciate the scriptures of the Brotherhood simply from the point of view of what they offer to religious thought and insight. They represent an experience which has been repeated often enough in history-the experience of the typical nonconformist who combines, by a strange and wonderful alchemy, an inner quietude with an outer fanaticism, and whose sense of God is a sense...
...Milan and her lands never produced a painter even approaching the first rank," wrote famed Art Critic Bernard Berenson. "She lacked genius." The failing of Milan artists, in Berenson's critical view: "Prettiness, with its overtones of gentleness and sweetness, formed, as it were, the primordial substance of Milanese painting. Like an infinite ocean of soap-bubbles, it covered even the most salient figures with a formless iridescence...
...idols reclaimed from the soil were handed over to children as playthings or used as targets for Sunday pistol practice. But today archaeologists are alert to seize them as invaluable clues to mysterious, pre-Columbian cultures that send their roots back some 30 centuries. And art lovers now view them as art expressions of rare value...