Word: whats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were other revelations, said the enthusiastic Spaniards. Bobbin lace, formerly thought to have been unknown before the 16th Century, was found in the tombs, as was cloth from China. Until the opening of the Las Huelgas sarcophagi, Spanish historians had not been absolutely sure whether Enrique I of Castile...
Thanks to Comedienne Channing's song numbers and to some fast, youthful Agnes de Mille dance routines, the show achieves an air of liveliness in places. What it never achieves is any real feeling of the '20s, or the right nostalgia for them.
They made a surprisingly fine exhibition, and one that proved that subjective moderns need not be stultified by the task of painting theme pictures. The French, it appeared, were still champs: no U.S. entry could match the tonal subtlety of the winter landscapes by France's Christian Caillard and...
Since war's end, church-building in the U.S. has been on the boom, notably on the Pacific Coast and in the Southwest. A typical example is Houston, Texas, which had 335 churches in 1936, has 515 today and more abuilding. But the boom is nationwide; Protestant denominations alone...
Yet the problem of building a functional church involves more than letting the construction materials show. The function of a church, after all, "is primarily one affecting the spiritual and emotional side of man." In other words, modern "expendable" churches may be bare but not barren, small but not confining...