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...hand, it certainly contains some passages that were foreign interpolations; on the other, it possibly lacks one or two scenes that the Bard originally included. As it stands, it is only about half the length of Hamlet; and The Comedy of Errors is the only shorter work in the canon...
...remedy all this, the colonels ousted Chrysostomos, Primate of Greece, by applying a retirement age of 80 to the Archbishop (Chrysostomos was 87). In his place as Archbishop of Athens they installed Palace Chaplain Ieronymos Kotsonis, a gray-bearded stripling then 61. A professor of canon law and author of more than 90 published works, Ieronymos started out with all the zeal of a theologian newly armed with power. He ordered special drives to aid the poor and sick, revamped the church welfare system, rented hundreds of "homes of tranquillity" for the aged. He raised clerical salaries substantially. He drafted...
...Canon Law. Ieronymos' effort to pack the Synod provoked a counterattack. Bishop Ambrosios, Metropolitan of Eleutheroupolis, called Ieronymos a despot; the Primate thereupon suspended Ambrosios for three days. "You are violating canon law, Your Beatitude!" cried Ambrosios. "You are afraid of the light, Your Beatitude...
...When Christians were prohibited by canon law from engaging in money lending because they would be sinfully guilty of usury, Jews, who were barred from most other occupations, took on the disdained but necessary...
...wiggling contours, are only pictures after all. They have altogether lost their shock. Most of them are now drained of their power even to surprise. Some look ornamental to the point of sleekness. To an extent that nobody would have predicted 15 years ago, they have entered the canon of belle peinture: what tract of paint surface could be more grazeable than the richly troweled field on which Dubuffet's Cow in a Black Meadow stands mooing soulfully, the hilarious bovine essence of solitude...