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...Indonesia last February. It was opened this fall with appropriate rites in the floodlit Hall of Columns, where U-2 Pilot Francis Powers was tried. "Do not be afraid of Moscow's frosts," said a Russian girl as she peered at 400 students from 59 countries. "The warmth of our hearts is with you, and it will keep you warm." Said Khrushchev: "We shall not force our ideology on you, but if any of you become infected with the disease of the times, Communism, I ask you not to put the blame...
...inclusion of such traditional equipment as candlesticks and crucifixes, calls in such modernists as Sculptor Richard Lippold and Painter Gyorgy Kepes to help. He demands that artists use materials both as contemporary as stainless steel and as old as cathedral glass, to give the church traditional richness and warmth of color. In searching for the most modern solution, he has lately returned to the earliest Christian prototypes: Portsmouth Priory's Church of St. Gregory the Great repeats in its octagonal plan Ravenna's San Vitale, founded by the Emperor Justinian...
Died. Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe, 96, biographer, historian and poet whose warmth and urbanity led his fellow Harvardman, Philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, to nominate him as the ideal man to represent the human race on a mission to Mars; in Cambridge, Mass. After eye trouble ended Howe's career as an editor (Youth's Companion, Atlantic Monthly), he became an author, wrote 38 volumes in longhand (including a 1924 Pulitzer Prize biography, Barrett Wendell and his Letters), but maintained nonetheless that his "best products" were his children: onetime Monologist and Novelist Helen, Harvard Law Professor Mark...
...very essence of civil society: what makes the multitude civilized is rational, deliberative argument among men ("We hold certain truths; therefore we can argue about them"). Writes Murray: "The cohesiveness of the City is not hot and humid, like the climate of the animal kingdom. It lacks the cordial warmth of love and unreasoning loyalty that pervades the family. It is cool and dry, with the coolness and dryness that characterize good argument among informed and responsible...
...gesture or expression that somehow reveals the essence of the person before him. "I invade privacy," says Koerner, "the most highly secret, sacred privacy." The green hair and the purple patches of flesh are in fact a legacy of the mpressionists -"the idea of green foliage, blue sky, warmth of flesh, all playing, interchanging with each other." For the dominant color of the painting as a whole, Koerner searches for clues in the subject's own character...