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...high plateau of papal collecting and patronage came in the 16th and 17th centuries. It lasted from the pontificate of Julius II (1503-13)-who commissioned the frescoes in the Stanze from Raphael and the Sistine frescoes from Michelangelo-through the reign of Clement VIII (1592-1605). In those years the most vivid and impressive aspects of papal taste came to their highest pitch, sometimes nearly bankrupting the papacy with the mania for the Antique, the demand for vast fresco cycles, fountains and pharaonic tombs, and the general love of lapis lazuli and gold...
...Twas the Night Before Christmas," Dec. 18. First shown in 1974, this cartoon has it all: sour old Scrooges, children in despair, a judicious town mayor, even gift lists returned from the North Pole marked "Not Accepted by Addressee." Narrated by Joel Grey, this adaptation of Clement Moore's famous poem is not recommended for people who fear mice...
...much. In a 204-to-202 vote, the House of Representatives endorsed an Administration-backed resolution that supports nuclear arms reduction in theory but shies away from backing a policy of freezing U.S. and U.S.S.R. arsenals at present levels, as proposed by the competing resolution of Wisconsin Democratic Congressman Clement Zablocki. While purely advisory in nature, the vote was regarded in Washington as a symbolic test of support for the President and his policies...
...That 1973 law effectively allows Congress to forbid the stationing of troops overseas for more than 60 days. "I am sure that if there is a confrontation and we lose a few Marines, Congress will take action to get them out of there," said House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Clement Zablocki of Wisconsin. Added Glenn: "I don't think the American people are prepared to see body bags coming back from the Mideast...
...Clement Clarke Moore, a professor of Greek and Oriental literature at New York City's General Theological Seminary, invented America's "Santa Claus" in 1822. Although opposed in principle to the frivolity of Christmas, Moore decided to write a poem to please his children. Inspired by his surroundings on a snowy Christmas Eve in Manhattan, Moore composed 56 lines on his way home from a market trip to buy a Christmas turkey. Moore's own sleigh and jingling bells suggested Santa's flying conveyance, while an old farmer friend, Jan Duyckinck, was reincarnated as the good saint...