Word: wising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some of the delegates may make religion their lifework. But even for backsliders, such gatherings are useful. In his message of greeting to the conference, Baptist Harry Truman took note of this fact with a quote from the worldly-wise old author of Ecclesiastes: Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth...
...wise move in the picture was casting Dorothy Lamour as a victim of hypnosis to cover her obvious deficiencies as an actress. And this may not have been intentional...
...does. His "Adventures of ideas" because not subject to the vicissitudes of scientific fashions, is a more enduring book. But not for that reason alone. It will, I believe, be read, pondered and discussed long after all of us are gone. It is a classic of our time, a wise book, a mellow one. Whitehead felt that it was his best. At once profound and lucid, original and erudite, comprehensive and detailed, it deals with the roots and fruits of cosmology, religion, art, ethics and civilization. In a hundred different ways it points up the limitations of language, of scholarship...
Frescoes by Candlelight. For nearly 2,000 years, artists have followed the Wise Men to Bethlehem, bringing gifts to celebrate the birth of God as man. The quality of their gifts has depended as much on their times as on themselves, and what they brought was sometimes meaningful, sometimes beautiful, but not always both together. If the early Christians who painted frescoes by candlelight in the catacombs of Rome had not sufficient skill to match the underground fire of their faith, Raphael, who worked with consummate grace for a triumphant Church, lacked their pent force...
...never changed, essentially, in all his later paintings of her; she only became more real, more human and more alive each time. Before he died, Bellini's faith and art had combined to create Madonnas like the one here reproduced, which were credibly like the Virgin the Wise Men found at Bethlehem: a living woman, and the Mother of God. The compassion in that Madonna's look, and in her hands which both protect and present the Child, touches eternity...