Word: man
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gustave Singier's bright blue abstraction, Noel Provencal, which looked as mindlessly gay and involved as a game of pick-up-sticks. What the U.S. entrants lacked in know-how they almost made up for in energy and imagination. Joseph Hirsch's Journey-an old man and a boy on a burro-looked as if it had been painted with mud from under the back stoop, and its only hint of Christmas was the sharp red of a couple of poinsettias in the boy's hand. But the red, contrasted with the dirty gloom of the rest...
...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. What the architects must achieve in new ways, concludes the FORUM: "Dignity, loftiness and reverence...
...words of St. Paul (Galatians 6:17), "From henceforth let no man trouble me: for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus," have led to some speculation that he may have carried the stigmata (Latin for marks...
...promote this ambitious program, N.A.M. followed its recent policy of picking a small businessman as president. Its choice: handsome, athletic Claude Adams Putnam, 59, head of the 200-man Markem Machine Co. in Keene, N.H., who succeeds Salt Lake City's Paint-Maker Wallace F. Bennett in N.A.M.'s top elective post. Putnam got his start in business at 16 as a machine-shop apprentice, and joined Markem when it was founded in 1911. He soon became its top salesman, and in 1929, its president. Proud that his non-union company has never laid off a single man...
...cope every day with pressure groups, but last week moviemen felt pressure from a fading minority which it has used as a villain ever since the movies were galloping tintypes. The Association on American Indian Affairs formed a national committee to get better movie treatment of the red man. Announced the association's president, Novelist Oliver (Laughing Boy) La Farge: "Motion-picture producers themselves are now more responsive to the problem, and are taking significant steps in current feature productions to give Indian material fair and authentic treatment...