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Born in Pembrokeshire, Wales (in 1876), Gwen John preferred Paris. There she divided her life between painting in her monastic quarters and praying in a Roman Catholic chapel around the corner. Poet Rainer Maria Rilke lent her books now & then, and she corresponded with "Dear Master" Neo-Thomist Jacques Maritain, but her only constant company was cats. She was careful to remember the cats in her will...
Famed St. Patrick's Cathedral, on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, was getting its face lifted. Last week, at just about the halfway mark in an ambitious repair job, tubular-steel cobwebs festooned the neo-Gothic church. St. Patrick's had cost only $1,500,000 by the time it was dedicated in 1879; the patching had already taken $1,000,000, would take another year and another million dollars...
...Vandenberg, off to Paris, left behind a collector's item in the field of doodlery. Retrieved from his place at a Washington committee meeting was a matchless example of the rose-o window work of the painstaking blastula school, with the later or packing-box influences of neo-cubism only just becoming apparent...
...pamphlet, What Is This Neo-Orthodoxy? (TIME, May 6), eleven Unitarian disbelievers (in the deity of Christ and the sinfulness of man) had lambasted Protestantism's growing neo-orthodox movement with everything in the book. The Unitarian polemicists concentrated their attack on neo-orthodoxy's belief in the Doctrine of Original Sin, indulging themselves in such five-fingered epithets as "totalitarian religion," " 'Mother fixation' upon an idealized past...
...this week's issue of his intellectual quarterly Christianity & Society, neo-orthodoxy's Reinhold Niebuhr uncorked a reply that minced no words. "The animus of the [Unitarian] attack," he charged, "is primarily directed against the classical tradition of Christianity in any of its forms." Then he went on to a flat refutation of the Unitarian authors' two main theses-which, he said, revealed "the stupidity and the malice of the pamphlet...