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...heart of all religion lies a sacred geography, the place where God reaches down to connect the human and the divine. From the time nearly 4,000 years ago when men first settled Mount Zion, a hill that stood out dramatically from its surroundings to betoken the "holy," all successive conquerors have found there an unshakable primal attachment, however different their rites and rituals. But instead of living up to their sacred ideals, the religious conquerors always fell into warfare for sole possession of the place, a battle that goes on unabated as the city enters its fifth millennium...
What does new world order mean -- in George Bush's mind? In the future of the world? Is it a rhetorical flourish in the same harmless league as his "thousand points of light"? Or does the phrase betoken some deeper American ambition -- a pattern of the Persian Gulf intervention to be extended elsewhere in the world as occasions arise...
...long afterward, the vogue for graffiti would release floods of glitzy dreck that shared the same eye-grabbing fervor. Indeed, both were grounded in the same area, a sense of common life, but only Stella was able to make it work aesthetically. Those who think abstract art should betoken "spirituality" are bound to be put off by the materialist cast of mind that lends its here-and-now toughness to even the most florid of Stella's works. Relentlessly inventive, marred only by the glaring, grinding overcomplication of some of his pictorial machines, he is a paragon of mental horsepower...
...Nathaniel Hawthorne's fictional Massachusetts, Hester Prynne wore the scarlet A to betoken her adultery. In 17th century New Hampshire, however, the transgression brought "two sets of 40 lashes" and the letters AD worn on upper garments. Today, adultery in the Granite State can bring a $1,000 fine or up to a year in prison. Soon it may not be a crime at all. The state house has passed a measure that would decriminalize adultery. If the senate follows suit, Republican Governor John Sununu is expected to sign the bill into...
...Gericault's Raft of the Medusa, but the scores of figures dumbly raging for survival in the cold green water have nothing classical about them. Already one sees some of the main traits of mature Beckmann breaking through: especially the sense of packed humanity in tight spaces that somehow betoken worse things beyond their walls; the tilted, frontal picture plane; the voids that jostle as emphatically as the solids...