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...America (232,000). A joint study committee has found no major obstacle to merger of these two Calvinist bodies, which already share a common church school curriculum and operate joint missions abroad. Observers believe that a formal announcement of merger may be made in time to celebrate the 400th anniversary of John Calvin's death, May 27. > At Washington's Wesley Theological Seminary, representatives of the African Methodist Episcopal, African Methodist Episcopal Zion, and Christian Methodist Episcopal churches held a historic first consultation on the possibility of union. Leaders discovered no doctrinal disputes that would prevent the eventual...
...mimic bird) are equally graphic dossiers on Columbus' discovery of America and London's 17th century plague and fire. Soon to be published: more kits on the Magna Carta, the Armada, the Gunpowder Plot and the boy Shakespeare (timed to coincide with the bard's 400th anniversary...
Biographical Blather. Rowse is a noted writer of Elizabethan history and one of the few historians ever to invade what has clearly been marked out as literary terrain. This, plus the fact that 1964 is the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth, allowed some small room for hope-not that his book would offer new material (there has been none discovered since 1931), but that it would somehow be intriguing and different. Alas, Rowse is no further along than his second chapter before it becomes clear that he is going to bog down in much of the traditional blather...
Abstract influence on the figure is found sensationally in a nude, raped, maimed Lavinia, daughter of Titus Andronicus, painted by Larry Rivers (for Show Magazine) to celebrate Shakespeare's 400th birthday. Willem de Kooning's Rosy-Fingered Dawn at Louse Point cocks the abstract expressionist's eye at nature. There is even the genial easel tradition in Raphael Soyer's portrait of his painting twin Moses...
...canal-he warms up with bolt after bolt of black velvet (champagne and stout). "Did they think I could fake it with bloody tea?" he asks. Almost by obvious right, the short, deep-voiced Griffith will play Falstaff next spring in Royal National Shakespeare Company performances commemorating the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth...