Word: worship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Honest, I don't worship Jackson Pollock . . . Today it's almost impossible to worship anything except the creative expression of the self. This emphasis on individuality (not for its own sake) makes the work of the "abstract expressionists" meaningful-not in any basically different way from jazz, or certain aspects of American business before becoming institutionalized, etc. This vital American painting is not only an answer to greyflannelsuitism, but to art as propaganda (e.g., Russia today and Mexico yesterday). Its seemingly uncommunicative, antisocial, art-for-art's-sake implications are understandable in terms of the failure...
Krister Stendhal, assistant professor of New Testament and chairman of the Faculty Committee on Worship, last night stressed that the proposal 'is the personal action of the Dean. There is, at the present time, no official business concerning the crucifix before the Committee...
Religion Editor Adon Taft of the Miami Herald (circ. 225,169) is an earnest Baptist who goes to church twice every Sunday-once to worship, and once to report on a new congregation in his column, "A Stranger in Church." Last week, obeying his instincts as both believer and newsman, Taft was working to expose the tent-show evangelism of a faith healer...
Church and art today are scarcely on speaking terms. Yet Christianity was once a great patron of all the arts, and artists in turn enriched the faith. To help end the separation, the National Council of Churches set up a Department of Worship and the Arts,* and last week the council sent all its member churches a statement described as "a study document." Main point: "The church should have a vanguard of men and women qualified to interpret the significance of contemporary art for the believer ... in terms of Christian criteria...
...also "challenge and expose the unexamined errors of our contemporaries in all that concerns their values, loyalties, way of life and assumptions in connection with the novels they read, the plays and films they see, the music they play and hear, the buildings in which they live, work and worship, the social symbols they revere, the dreams and fables, indeed the myths they feed upon...