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...suddenly become a national scandal. Someone had informed the Archbishop that the mural contained a portrait of Don Ignacio Ramirez (an anticlerical follower of Juarez) holding a placard with the words Dios no existe ("God does not exist"-see cut). Sadly, the Archbishop canceled a date to bless the just-completed hotel and went off to bless some jai alai courts instead...
When a reporter got to Rivera's house, the garrulous, 61-year-old revolutionary was ready & waiting, with both guns loaded. "I respectfully propose," he offered grandly, "that the Archbishop bless the hotel in order that, with divine help, it may realize the greatest profits possible, and that he damn my [mural] so that I may go tranquilly to hell. Then everyone will be happy...
...night at all, but a continual light upon the huge and mighty sea." Debarking, he and his crew eventually ended up-in Moscow, where Ivan the Terrible amiably "took into his hand Master George Killings-worth's beard . . . and pleasantlie delivered it to the Metropolitane, who, seeming to bless it, ,saide in Russ, 'this is God's gift'; as indeed at that time it was ... in length five foote and two inches of assize." Martin Frobisher, pushing to the northwest,, met a less favorable reception. He rediscovered Greenland (rising "like pinnacles of steeples all covered with...
Riding up in a truck's cab was black-robed, white-bearded Bishop Evlogios of Koritza-a town in Albania which the Greeks maintain ought to be theirs. The bishop agrees. Again & again the column halted to let the bishop scramble out and bless passing soldiers...
...Bless My Soul!" Generations of students at Cambridge and London, and later at Harvard, learned to look alive when he exploded "God bless my soul!" That invocative usually heralded a significant pronouncement. His voice, in later years somewhat shrill, had the range of a roller coaster. In cutaway coat with stiff collar and ascot tie, Whitehead paced the lecture platform with hands in pockets. Vestigial tufts of white hair fringing a shiny bald pate made him look, said one pupil, "like an angel whose halo had slipped." Now & then Whitehead arrested his pacing to sketch a deceptively simple blackboard diagram...