Word: dominicans
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Worshipers at the cathedral of Notre Dame last Easter were shocked by a young man in the robes of a Dominican monk, who stormed the pulpit and shouted "God is dead!" (TIME, April 17). Paris psychiatrists took him over from the police for examination and the current issue of the English-language literary journal, Transition, carries the psychiatrists' report. Samples of the report's psychiatric word-weaving...
...been to the worshipers. To many, it sounded like a fair description of any eager young existentialist. So shrill, in fact, was the outcry that tendinous, hyperemotive Michel Mourre was released on bail, has written (for a couple of French newspapers) the memoirs of his autodidactic life as a Dominican student, as an existentialist, and as a bohemian...
After a lifetime of producing pictures meant to relax the looker-"like a comfortable armchair"-old Modern Henri Matisse is at work finishing his designs for a Dominican chapel in the Provençal village of Vence. Not too far away, at Assy in the French Alps, Père Couturier has made the art of Moderns Fernand Léger, Jean Lurçat and Georges Rouault shine clean and fresh in the new mountain church (TIME, June...
...this has nothing to do with us here in Colombia. But this kind of hagiolatry might spread the length and breadth of the continent with the appearance of further saints of this type. Perhaps the canonization of Saint Odría of Peru and Saint Trujillo of the Dominican Republic already is in the works. When the day comes that there are five or seven heavenly governments in this hemisphere, it will be the last bell for democracy...
...purpose soon emerged sharp and clear: it was to forge a weapon to fight press censorship in the Western Hemisphere, notably in Latin America. In a committee report that pulled no punches, the countries where censorship exists and the degree of press repression were ticked off. Peru, Venezuela, the Dominican Republic and 13 other countries were all criticized for current or recent attempts to censor the press. But the chief and most persistent offender named by the editors was Argentina...