Word: worldlier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...peripatetic humanist. Desiderius Erasmus, who could "scarce forbear" to pray to "St. Socrates" and expressed in satire what many of his contemporaries mutely felt about the late-Renaissance church. Author Durant delightedly quotes from an Erasmus dialogue written on the death in 1513 of Julius II, one of the worldlier Popes, who is presented as seeking admission to heaven from St. Peter...
...show (TIME, Aug. 14) were sere oriental Madonnas from Korea and India, a dark Madonna and Child from Africa. But among the moderns of Europe and the U.S., a preoccupation with the Christian theme is still the rare exception; the main streams and the main schools follow other and worldlier concerns. Even among the exceptions it is hard to find anything with the radiance of John Donne's lines...