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Most Memorable. Other documents regarding Vermeer's life are scarce, testifying mainly to his baptism in 1632, his financial straits, and the fact that when he died in 1675, at 43, he left his widow and eleven children a bread bill of 617 guilders, for which two paintings were given in payment. For all that, it seems Vermeer enjoyed some celebrity while he lived: a French nobleman recorded in his diary in 1663 that he had made a special trip from The Hague to Delft just to visit Vermeer's studio. No self-portrait of Vermeer as such...
...Luci Johnson's first serious exposure to the pitfalls of being a President's daughter. Having already been christened in the Episcopal Church, she did not, strictly speaking, need a second baptism at the time of her conversion. Luci nonetheless requested and received the sacrament, prompting public complaint that she had gratuitously slighted the Episcopal Church and ecumenical spirit...
...that matter, most Protestant churches themselves give full sacramental character only to baptism and the Eucharist. Lutherans and Anglicans regard the other sacraments that Catholics hold sacred (ordination, confirmation, marriage, penance and extreme unction) as salutary but subordinate...
...priestly life. His ten-point program of grievances that need to be corrected includes an end to arbitrary transfers, a tenure policy that would give priests the right to a hearing before they could be suspended, and a professional salary that would end priests' dependence on Mass and baptism offerings...
...Matt Stanton, the hero, describes his immigrant passage across the Atlantic in midwinter, seven weeks of steady rain. The men and women in the fetid, icy hold were unhousebroken animals. Beslimed in his own filth-a symbolic rebirth-Matt rises from the hold to be dashed with the condescending baptism of the new world: "In America, we bathe." In the strangled fury of his pride, Matt learns a new commandment: "Get power. Without it, there can be no decency." There is precious little decency in Matt's struggle for power. He steals a mistress away from the mayor, then...