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Anshutz was a student of nature, drawing most of his inspiration from the workaday world. He had simple, direct ideas of truth in painting and how to go about it: "Get up an outfit for outdoor work, go out into some woe-begotten, turkey-chawed, bottle-nosed, henpecked country and set myself down, get out my materials and make as accurate a painting of what I see in front of me as I can." Anshutz' canvases breathe in life the way lungs take in air. In several seascapes at the gallery, young boys frolic over the beach...
...ceremonial upper house that has been called "the last infirmary of noble minds." Instead, Mister Wedgwood Benn, as he insisted on calling himself, ran for re-election from Bristol South-East, and easily won. But the High Court ruled that a peer's male heir, ''lawfully begotten," may not renounce his title. Protesting that he was thus ''the victim of my father's virtue." "the Reluctant Peer'' was forced to stand aside while the defeated Tory candidate occupied his seat in Commons...
...first eight councils were largely concerned with defining church doctrine. In the process of stamping out heresies, the fathers extracted from the message of Scripture the essential dogmas of the Trinity. Condemning the thought of an Alexandrian priest named Arius, First Nicaea ruled that Christ was divine-"the only begotten of the Father, of the same substance with the Father." Ephesus anathematized the Nestorians, because they refused to acknowledge Mary as Theotokos, the Mother of God. Chalcedon condemned the Monophysites, for denying that Christ united a divine and a human nature in one person. The councils may have brought...
...most strictly command that nowhere in the provinces of the Indies may there ever be received to the holy habit or profession of our order those who are begotten on the side of either one of their parents of Indian or African blood," read the statute of the Dominican order in 17th century Peru. Thus, the lowly Martin de Porres, offspring of a dalliance between a Peruvian grandee and a freed Negro slave girl, could never aspire to full priestly status in the Dominican Convent of the Most Holy Rosary in Lima. He took this mortification humbly, and gave...
...Lima he took as one of his texts the familiar "God so loved the world that he gave to it his only begotten son." Billy illustrated it with an incident from his own life. Several years ago, he said, while walking in the country with his son, he had accidentally stepped on an anthill, killing many of the ants. When his distressed son asked him if he could not help the insects, Billy had said no, they were too small; only if he were to become an ant himself could he help-and he could not do that because...