Word: mannered
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...many theologians have been hanged. One who was is attracting a growing following among ministers and seminarians in the U.S. What makes Dietrich Bonhoeffer notable in 1960 is not the manner of his death at the hands of the Nazis 15 years ago nor anything as concrete as a theological system; he is important because of his varied Christian insights, including above all the view that the Christian must not withdraw from the world, but must live in it fully, with his faith. In the words of a new book* about Bonhoeffer, he "challenged the church to rethink...
Twitters from a Satellite. The bulk of Composer Riegger's work is atonal-in fact, he was an atonalist back in the days before the tone row had replaced the velvet neckcloth as a musical status symbol. But in contrast to the cool, desiccated manner of European twelve-tone composers of the Schoenberg-Webern school, Riegger turned out propulsive, ruggedly rhythmic compositions full of jangling dissonances and roughhewn contrasts. The effect was sometimes as startling as an impressionist-styled canvas executed with a house painter's brush...
Derounian was talking about royalties and the manner in which Clark, the committee charges, in less than three years earned $167,570 in salary. $409.020 in stock gains. As Clark told it, people were always trying to force money on him. and he had a hard time pushing it away. In one near deal, an old pal named Bernard Lowe came to Clark with a newborn song called Butterfly and an offer to assign 25% of the publisher's royalties to Click Corp.. one of Clark's publishing outfits. "I pointed out that this was unnecessary," Clark...
...refuge in his prestige as "the father of Korean independence." In a public statement on the riots, he declared plaintively: "It is almost unbelievable that any element of the patriotic Korean people, to whom I have dedicated my life, could act in such a way." In the traditional Oriental manner, all the members of Rhee's Cabinet resigned "for failing in our duty to the nation...
...death was Ryder recognized as one of America's masters. Bierstadt's oversize canvases disappeared from museum walls, and one after another, they found their way to storerooms and attics. Critics dismissed them as huge postcards, and some declared that it was more Bierstadt's commanding manner than his talent that had brought him such high prices. But last week viewers at the New Bedford show could see why the story did not end there...