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...WILLEM DE KOONING-Stone, 48 East 86th. Manhattan's Dutch-born modern master tries on lines the way poets try out words. Because he begins with plan and ends with chaotic inspiration, De Kooning's first drawing retrospective provides illuminating clues to the natural forms that shape his abstractions, to the explicitness with which he builds ambiguity, to how his art is made. Forty-odd drawings in charcoal, pencil, pastel, sumi-ink and Sapolin include classical studies of the '30s, samplings from the "Boudoir" and "Attic" series, sketches for Pink Angel (the painting that reportedly copped...
Abstract influence on the figure is found sensationally in a nude, raped, maimed Lavinia, daughter of Titus Andronicus, painted by Larry Rivers (for Show Magazine) to celebrate Shakespeare's 400th birthday. Willem de Kooning's Rosy-Fingered Dawn at Louse Point cocks the abstract expressionist's eye at nature. There is even the genial easel tradition in Raphael Soyer's portrait of his painting twin Moses...
Once, spreading the Gospel was the white man's spiritual burden; now all the world's Christians share it. Says the Rev. Willem Visser 't Hooft, general secretary of the World Council of Churches: " 'Mission' no longer is traffic from West to East, but traffic from everywhere to everywhere...
Last January the Christian Century noted with considerable concern that the man who has guided the World Council of Churches since its formation fifteen years ago would be stepping down from his position as General Secretary "within a year or two." The ecumenical magazine pondered the chances of replacing Willem Adolph Visser't Hooft and concluded that it was not possible. For Dr. Visser't Hooft is at once a kind of charismatic leader-prophet, an astute theologian, and a gifted diplomat. His successor may be one or some of these things, but it is unlikely that he will...
Since then, the World Council has grown steadily to its present membership of over 200 churches, with congregations totaling nearly 400 million Christians. At every step of the Council's development, Willem Visser't Hooft has made his leadership and wisdom felt. It was he who paved the way for the historical entry of the Eastern Orthodox churches into the World Council in 1962. He has taken a first hand interest in racial problems in South Africa as well as in missionary work all over the globe. Although he directs an international staff of 150 people...