Word: greatly
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...series of charges totaling three tons of explosives and thought that this one should really go up with a bang; 30 minutes later it did, and the bang shook most of Hungnam. That night Hungnam rocked to still more violent and ever-increasing explosions around the U.S. perimeter. Great orange masses of flame swirled brilliantly up into the skies and then subsided again. The perimeter shrank slowly but steadily. The evacuation went on like an orderly, well-rehearsed fire drill...
Ever since 1937, when St. John's College at Annapolis made education history by basing its curriculum on the Great Books, it has been getting occasional inquiries from women who wanted to enroll. Last week, after years of saying no, St. John's changed its policy. Next fall, announced the Board of Visitors and Governors, the college hopes to have 50 freshmen coeds -the first in St. John's 254-year history...
...John's males take to the new idea? At a special meeting of the Student Polity (St. John's for student council), Moderator (president) Stewart Washburn spoke up: "We accept women. There is nothing wrong with women as such. But they are going to necessitate a great number of annoying practical adjustments." St. John's was making a beginning at such adjustments by assigning one of its four dormitories for the use of the expected newcomers...
John Donne, the 17th Century cleric who wrote these words, was a great enough poet to rise to the loftiest challenge any Christian artist can face: the translation of faith into the medium of art. Before Donne's day, such painters as Giotto, Raphael, Bellini and Leonardo met the same challenge on the same high plane. Bach and Handel, a little later, met it with their music...
...cover and in the color pages following, TIME this week presents works by a handful of modern artists, neither great nor well-known, but inspired by something of the same joyous challenge that inspired Donne. Each has managed to illustrate in his own way a facet of the Christmas story...