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...being "now a distinguished member of the French Academy." Since when has that body of so-called immortals, senescent gynophobes, honored Madame Colette? I know that she is the president of the lesser Académie Goncourt, and followed the Comtesse de Noailles as a member of the Belgian Académie Royal de Langue et de Littérature Française. But her membership in the Academic Française is news to me, as indeed it must be to that body itself...
Restoring an old master is always a ticklish job. When Belgian authorities announced last fall that they were planning a major cleanup job on the 15th Century Adoration of the Lamb by the brothers Hubert and Jan van Eyck, they drew a chorus of protests. The Lamb is Belgium's No. 1 art treasure. It had already suffered through 500 years of wars, fires, thefts* and the ministrations of countless well-meaning artist-restorers...
Last week Belgian art lovers could breathe easy. The restored Lamb, back in place in Ghent's Cathedral of St. Bavon, looked better than it had for centuries. Long-obscured flowers sprouted from the grass, the grey clouds that once hovered about the holy dove had become a rain-bow-hued nimbus, and a lovingly detailed background landscape emerged clearly from the greenish-brown mist of generations. Everywhere, colors brightened to the rich blues, yellows and reds the Van Eycks had originally painted...
...prisoners. Since the Chinese entered the war, said Hanley, they "have committed most of the Communist atrocity killings." With the air of a man who had detailed records on every case, Hanley declared the Chinese had killed 2,513 U.S. prisoners, ten British, 40 Turkish, and five Belgian...
...Belgium is a lay state which is benevolently neutral towards religion." The government gives financial subsidies to Roman Catholics, Protestants and Jews, but no attempt is made to control religious policy. Protestants in Belgium are generally "confident, happy and grateful to God and the Belgian government for the freedom which they enjoy to engage in worship and to propagate their faith...