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...After a month the exhibition will move to London's Tate Gallery. Even in a big art center it should prove instructive. Picasso's nude and a bleak industrial landscape by British Primitive Laurence Stephen are separated not by a gulf, but by the vast sea that present-day artists venture upon. Beaverbrook's hundred provide a lively answer to an impossible question...
...cave temples as Yun Kang, where a mile-long cliff face has been chiseled into thousands of Buddhist images. Shensi is reverenced as the birthplace of the Chinese nation, and when the country was first unified by the Ch'in dynasty in 221 B.C., its capital was near present-day Sian...
...dreadful pageant that seems to haunt Novelist-Historian Zoe Oldenbourg began on a hot, still day in 1209, when a French army took the city of Béziers, a bastion of one of history's most romantic territories. The region covered all of present-day southern France. Its palaces were rich in art and dominated by the codes of courtly love. Its tongue was a strange and musical dialect that had given the region a flourishing literature of poetry and was to give it a name-Languedoc (for langue d'oc, literally, the language...
Barth argues that Protestants have paid too much attention to the "conversational contacts" with Rome that the council has opened up, and too little to the spirit of inner renewal that is visible in much of present-day Catholic theology and Biblical scholarship, as well as in the new directions in worship proposed by liturgical reformers. Far from being a "static power group," Rome, like Protestantism, lives "by the dynamics of the evangelical Word and Spirit," and Catholicism today may well have in it more "spiritual motion" than the Protestant churches...
Fidel Castro had an unexpected bit of advice for his countrymen: Learn some lessons from the way capitalism ran things in the pre-Castro days. Present-day Cuba, admitted Castro in a speech in Havana, is afflicted with loafing, mismanagement, overcentralization and red tape. "Some people here apparently believe that socialism is to mess up everything and entangle everything and make things impracticable and unworkable." Under capitalism, the owner at least "protected his interests," while the government-appointed manager of an expropriated enterprise "is not disposed to protect the interests of anybody because he has an assured salary...