Word: setting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Since then, under the presidency of Christian Herter himself, the school has sent some 300 college graduates on to advanced degrees and to careers as diplomats or businessmen all over the world. Each applicant (there are about 500 a year) must pass through a rigid set of tests and interviews. "We must see how he handles himself on his feet and on his fanny," says Dean Philip Thayer...
Until the late Renaissance, European artists devoted most of their talents to religious art; then the secular tide set in. Today few artists even think of painting for churches. Pope Pius XII made an attempt to reverse the drift three years ago with an encyclical proclaiming that "modern art should be given free scope in the due and reverent service of the church and the sacred rites, provided that [the artists] preserve a correct balance between styles, tending neither to extreme realism nor to excessive symbolism . . ." Last week he welcomed 300 artists and art authorities from 23 countries...
...French delegation, headed by conservative Architect Gaston Bardet, had a far different notion of how the "trash" might be eliminated. The church, Bardet proposed, should draw up a set of rules and regulations governing sacred art. Lavanoux opposed the resolution, saw it voted down. Few of the conferees believed that good religious art could ever be produced by rules...
...episode of the Damascus road. In Here I Stand (Abingdon-Cokesbury; $4.75), a new biography of the founder of the Reformation in Germany, Roland H. Bainton, a Quaker and a Yale professor of church history, carefully details the character and extent of the great crisis that was set in motion that day. Within 13 tumultuous years the Luther energy had blasted Christianity out of its late-medieval lethargy, ripped the universal church to sectarian shreds, created the Protestant movement and set its main direction...
...Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer ordered export controls restored on scarce steel products, Harrison conferred with 21 steel company presidents called in to discuss formation of an industry advisory committee which would help him set up voluntary allocations for steel...