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...desk commander, the Chief of Staff has made three trips to Viet Nam, plans to return there to share Christmas dinner with men of the 8th Cavalry Regiment, the outfit he commanded in Korea. "What we are doing there," he says, "is fighting an island campaign on a land mass." Last week Johnson boarded his JetStar for a one-day visit to the Army's biggest training center, Fort Jackson, in the piney uplands of South Carolina, where 19,655 men are being taught to fight...
Blasphemy & Burden. Medieval Christians considered the Talmud blasphemous, and copies of it were publicly burned by church authorities as late as 1599. Even Jews have revolted against the burden of its teaching. The 8th century Karaites rejected the authority of the Talmud for the simplicity of the Bible message alone. Today Reform Jews tend to regard it as a record of past wisdom rather than as an essential of their faith...
...near as we can determine," Jenner concluded, "Morrissey returned to Boston either the night of the 8th or the morning of the 9th of September." Illinois' Senator Everett Dirksen observed: "If you allege that you live in one state for the purpose of being admitted to the bar, and you're not [a resident]-there's a rather unpleasant word for that. It bothers me." Oddly enough, Morrissey, the Justice Department and Teddy Kennedy's office had all neglected to inform the Judiciary Committee of Morrissey's educational foray in Georgia...
Fleshing Out Saints. Until the late 8th century, Western art lay largely under the influence of Byzantium, whose hovering saints were stripped of flesh, transcendentally vaporous, symbols of life beyond death. So otherworldly was Byzantine art that by the time Charlemagne was crowned, images of the sacred figures had been banned for 74 years. Eastern iconoclasm had emphatically blotted out the Greco-Roman exaltation of living man. The new Carolingian Emperor personally set about to change the art of his times...
...famous Utrecht Psalter abandoned elaborate gilding to accompany the Gospels with cursive, pen-and-ink cartooning. By the time the Carolingian Renaissance subsided in the late 10th century, art was no longer the same as religion, only its handmaiden. As the Libri Carolini put it in the late 8th century: "The sacrament is nourishment for the soul. Pictures are food only for the eyes." So the Carolingian renaissance opened the way for the later, greater Renaissance to depict the deeds of mortal man without fear...