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...Rubens sold the 7-ft. by 10-ft. oil to the British Ambassador to The Hague for 600 florins. A surviving letter, signed by the artist, describes the work as "Daniel amidst many lions, which are taken from the life. Original, the whole by my hand." Rubens is often dismissed as a rote fabricator of effulgent flesh, of plump nudes and pillared panoramas of bestial warriors. His Daniel is, otherwise, dramatic proof of the baroque at its turbulent best...
...Italy, but Antwerp, where Rubens lived, boasted one, and there he was able to sketch lions in their coiled-spring power. And it is within the painting's faithfulness to nature that the miracle becomes more believable. Remains of their former meals lie scattered in the foreground. Amidst their curling manes and rippling bodies, Daniel is impaled by a shaft of light that slashes into the den. The sheer force of the composition points directly at the baroque style then in its flowering...
...Amidst all the talk of Christian unity, relatively little has been said about the differences in spirituality and worship that could keep the churches apart even after doctrinal problems have been resolved. Last summer, a group of top-ranking Protestant, Orthodox and Catholic theologians met at St. John's Benedictine Abbey in Minnesota to compare and contrast the pieties of their churches. The papers from this unique conference appear in the current Worship, a monthly journal on liturgy published by the monks of St. John...
...Westmoreland, 51, directed the historic buildup, drew up the battle plans, and infused the 190,000 men under him with his own idealistic view of U.S. aims and responsibilities. He was the sinewy personification of the American fighting man in 1965 who, through the monsoon mud of nameless hamlets, amidst the swirling sand of seagirt enclaves, atop the jungled mountains of the Annamese Cordillera, served as the instrument of U.S. policy, quietly en during the terror and discomfort of a conflict that was not yet a war, on a battlefield that was all no man's land...
...have promised to celebrate the fifth anniversary of their "National Liberation Front" this week with a major act of terrorism against Americans in downtown Saigon. Since in the past the Viet Cong have very often proved as bad as their word, Saigon last week wore a look of siege amidst the festoonery of Christmas. Police guards were doubled around the main hotels and military installations, and white wooden barriers blocked off many streets-including the one on which General William C. Westmoreland's house is situated...