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...Science, beginning with Copernicus, has knocked flat the old, literal, three-story concept of the universe -heaven in the top floor, hell in the cellar, the earth in between." See RELIGION, The New Heaven...
...Procter & Gamble, which is TV's biggest customer ($100 million a year), quoted from its written policy: "There will be no material on any of our programs which could in any way further the concept of business as cold, ruthless, and lacking all sentiment or spiritual motivation. If a businessman is cast in the role of a villain, it must be made clear that he is not typical but is as much despised by his fellow businessmen as he is by other members of society...
...Bauhaus principle expressed by Gropius in 1923. "We perceive every form," he wrote, "as the embodiment of an idea, every piece of work as a manifestation of our innermost selves. Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning." The most familiar examples of this concept are Paul Klee's fantasies but, Feininger and, especially, Wassily Kandinsky submit to the same influence...
Unfortunately, the Busch has assembled an exceedingly unimaginative show out of fascinating materials. With no hint of an understanding for the effects the movement has had on contemporary art and architecture, and with little consciousness of the unifying concept the Bauhaus had of the arts, the Busch merely presents the viewer with unrelated objects...
...Globals. Hammarskjold's always correct, publicly nonpartisan stand against the "big shoe-thumping fellow" plainly showed his mettle. And yet, his concept of a strong U.N. executive had detractors, even angry foes, in the West as well as the East. Many Britons were bitter at U.N. "interference" during and after the Suez crisis in 1956. France's President de Gaulle, who sniffs his contempt for the "socalled United Nations," had grudging respect for Hammarskjold the man, but still heaped scorn on that whole vast category of what he calls apatrides-nonnationals whose patriotism is global, not local...