Word: visitations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...course of my duties I visit about 140 Methodist churches in central Alabama each year. I can assure you that the gatherings which I attend are not given over to "Pope-hating." . . . The range of conversations includes: the essential need of church unity in support of the United Nations, furthering the cause of industrial peace, strengthening racial understanding and getting rid of racial antagonisms...
...development did not seem to depress the delegates in the least-even though their governments had spent $250,000 to give the college a global air. Hunter was not really big enough. Already, Secretary General Trygve Lie had a line on a likely spot for U.N.'s next visit-the spacious, glass-bricked, $18 million Sperry Gyroscope plant at Lake Success, Long Island...
Three years later, in 1886, Gauguin tried to find new security in the hedged, rock-buttressed fields of Brittany, and succeeded only in learning how to compose his paintings better. In Aries, where he went to visit his friend Vincent van Gogh, he learned something about translating sunlight into arbitrary colors (chrome yellow, red-violet). Said he in his journal: "Though the public had no suspicion of it, two men were performing there a colossal work that was useful to them both." The work ended when Van Gogh went mad, chased Gauguin down the street with a razor, then went...
Said General Ike, on his first visit to the Met since his cadet days: "Even the roughest soldiers feel more sympathy with ancient Egyptian art when they view a graceful column rising into the sky than from all the descriptive matter written on the subject." Said Director Taylor: "This is not an art museum in the ordinary sense. It is a visual library recording the whole history of civilization from ancient times to the present...
Judas Had the Place to Himself. Schoenberner also found two other important examples of the gap between appearance and reality. One was the result of a visit to Oberammergau, where Bavarian peasants performed their world-famed Passion Play. Schoenberner discovered that the peasant who played the role of Christ was thereby enabled to charge tourists twice as much rent for his rooms as any of his followers (Judas, it was whispered, couldn't find a roomer at any price; and St. John, who was the handsomest of the Apostles, finally eloped to the U.S. with a rich American widow...