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...Jewish; most of Lubbock, as you can imagine, is not. In fact, Lubbock is predominantly Southern Baptist. It has been described as the "buckle of the Bible Belt" and is reputed to have more churches per capita than any other city of its size...
From his first Bellini-like and Giorgionesque paintings, through the classical certainties of his middle age -- such as the John the Baptist, a veritable column of vigor and controlled theatrical gesture -- and on to his late work, Titian never ceased to develop. Perhaps to a modern eye, late Titian is the most moving of all, for it goes beyond the pictorial rhetoric that made his success. It is broken, impressionistic and no longer interested in the classical ideal. From its smoky melancholy come Lear-like outcries of pessimism, whose fullest expression is reached in The Flaying of Marsyas, perhaps...
...were written for the British raj. In fact, this hortatory verse was addressed to Teddy Roosevelt with a clear message: having won the Spanish-American War of 1898, the U.S. should claim the Philippines as a colony. Thus Kipling, as author Christopher Hitchens dryly observes, was "John the Baptist to the age of American empire...
THREE DAYS AFTER I arrive, I am sitting in a tiny Baptist church right off Route 220, watching a daughter of my mother's high school classmate get married. "To serve your husband is to worship God," the minister declares. The congregation is silent, waiting for him to continue. Several women fan themselves with folded wedding programs...
...Wichita Falls, Texas. He outpolled an Atlanta moderate, the Rev. Daniel Vestal, 21,471 to 15,753. Like all presidents since 1979, Chapman will use his nominating powers to consolidate inerrantist control of S.B.C. schools and agencies. The meeting also gutted funding for a Washington office representing various Baptist denominations in favor of an S.B.C. lobby that will buttress the religious right on such matters as abortion and school prayer...