Word: humaneness
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Human Good. Murray gave his polemical proclivities a workout in the early '50s with a scholarly drumfire of debate in the pages of the monthly American Ecclesiastical Review with its editor, Redemptorist Father Francis J. Connell, and Msgr. Joseph Clifford Fenton, professor of dogma at the Catholic University of America. The subject at issue: Murray's contention that the Vatican should give its formal blessing to the U.S. pluralist system as a new, permanent and viable kind of relationship between religion and government. The learned, footnote-stippled discussion ended when Murray was advised by his order that henceforth...
...present book, carefully putting the matter in question form, Murray suggests that the .American system, including the American economy, is more than a material achievement to be held somewhat suspect from the spiritual point of view, but "a human good" and a limited "end-in-itself," recalling the 2nd century dictum of Irenaeus that "the material is susceptible of salvation...
...this chronicle of family life in Knoxville, Tenn. in 1915, the very theme in the end is family life: husband, wife, small son in-laws, generations, dissimilar family backgrounds, differences over religion conflicts due to temperament, conjugal love, ultimate human separateness. What shifts various stresses, what tightens and loosens knots, is the impact on so many lives of young Jay Follet's sudden death in an automobile accident. The immediate, wrenching impact, above all on Jay's pregnant wife, gives the play its most powerful scene, an emotional climax from which the rest of the play moves downward...
...earliest paintings were for the most part street scenes in which buildings and bridges, walls and traffic overwhelmed the tiny humans that lived in the city. Gradually the human grew bigger and bigger until the figure itself dominated the canvas. Soyer longed to paint portraits in the manner of Thomas Eakins, "completely uningratiating, starkly honest." Degas was another influence, turning Soyer to the natural grace of young women going about some daily task, oblivious to the world...
...that requires no knowledge, no technical skill? What pride in accomplishment can one have? Nonrepresentational art is nothing more than personalized decoration " says Soyer firmly, if barely audibly. "Good representational art is something for contemplation. Like building cathedrals it involves the hand, the mind and the human spirit...