Word: ways
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hieratic to the hieratic. For the anonymous Byzantine monk painting the Mother of God, the stylized emotions of iconography were public and functional, with few secrets but only shared mysteries; to Giacometti, portraiture was similarly stylized, yet obsessive and all but totally private. Between them on that spiral way, at the far point from which the return curve began, was Rembrandt, searching and searching his own face, his own eyes, in the mirror of his self-portraits...
Fused Concerns. They step forth hesitantly, to look about them at a world which has come a long way from the crystalline vision celebrated by the icon makers. Yet Giacometti, however attenuated the impulse, is still in the lineage that reaches back to Bruegel's exuberant vision, Rembrandt's passionate introspection, the language of humanism. Across town at the Biennale, the young propose that the visual concerns of seven centuries have been mined out, exhausted. The argument is none too convincing among the melted statues and faltering gadgetry. It suggests that their alternative is itself running...
...avoid the embarrassment of backing a segregationist ploy already ruled unconstitutional. HEW civil rights lawyers pointed out that if the original Whitten amendment passed, the Administration would have little choice but to denounce it as such, or to institute a quick court test to underline the point. Either way, the Administration would have been forced into taking direct actions repugnant to the South, countermanding the Congress and endangering future HEW appropriations...
...through by tiny orchestras, blasted over by huge ones, shouted by great singers and squeaked by small ones. In New York and San Francisco, people are paying to sight-read the choruses at "Messiah sing-ins," and at the White House, President Nixon heard a 30-minute sample. One way or another, Handel's Messiah these days is as omnipresent as its namesake-and just about as worshiped and abused...
...similar assessment of the Christian impact on the world. "The secularity of the world, as we see it today in a globally heightened form, has fundamentally arisen not against Christianity but through it," he writes. "It is originally a Christian event." So is it also, in a strikingly different way, in the thinking of Roman Catholic Theologian Gregory Baum. In a study called Man Becoming, to be published next spring, New York-based Father Baum perceives the promise of eschatology not so much in man's collective history as in each man's psychological nature. The "coming...