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...Frontiers. Last week Dr. Willem Visser 't Hooft, general secretary of the World Council, dropped into Chicago, to make arrangements for next year's meeting. Said Dutchman Visser 't Hooft, speaking of eschatology: "The theme of hope was chosen because of its relevance in the world today, when so many areas show a certain hopelessness, while elsewhere there are certain false hopes, e.g., under a totalitarian ideology such as the Communist . . . There are two dimensions to Christian hope-one dealing in the present and one dealing in the future . . . Both dimensions of Christian hope are vital...
Seen across a room, the picture looked rather like an abstraction. Somber in color, it had a surging quality as unsettling as any work by such abstract expressionists as Jackson Pollock or Willem de Kooning. A closer look justified the big tempera's title-Field Gate. In the foreground were two rickety gateposts, from which a faintly discernible path looped up and away over a vast, snow-swept hillside rising to an eerily shifting, storm-filled sky. Meticulously building this wide, wild scene, grass blade by grass blade, Wyeth suggested the looming forces of nature in an impassioned portrait...
Bach's St. Matthew Passion, in a vintage 1939 recording by Willem Mengelberg and the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra (Columbia); Respighi's Pines and Fountains of Rome, played by Toscanini and the NBC Symphony and wrapped in one of the fanciest album packages to date (13 pages of photographs of Rome, with text by Vincent Sheean) at no extra cost (Victor...
Manhattan gallerygoers are an experienced lot. Within the space of a few blocks on syth Street they can see every kind of painting, from pensive and pastoral to wild and woolly, from dully familiar to aggressively frightful. But even the initiates who pushed into the crowded gallery where Willem de Kooning's latest paintings were on show last week came out reeling a little...
...Jiro Yoshihara's Japanese Sunday argues for the universality, if not the naturalness, of the abstract language: his melancholy picture looks extraordinarily like the work of Manhattan's Willem de Kooning, which Yoshihara has never seen...