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...appears to say it continuously and, when not actually talking, his lips move all the time in silent, repetitive prayer. Like Pope John, perhaps even more so, he loves holy pictures, relics, shrines, pilgrimages, saints and martyrs. Miracles, especially the possibility of a new one, fill him with delight. He reveres all the glittering -- some would say tawdry -- aspects of traditional Catholicism. Both John and John Paul would have found themselves at home in the pre- Reformation world of medieval Christianity...
...frustrations were increased by his career. He was not an intellectual at all. He had none of the instincts of an administrator or clerical politician. By nature he was a pastoralist -- that is, he loved the care of souls. People meant everything to him. His greatest delight -- and temptation, as he freely admitted -- was to sit in the kitchen of a teeming, pulsating Italian household, chatting to the women as they went about their work, telling stories to the children, cracking jokes with the men. Instead, his superiors made him spend most of his life as a diplomat, culminating...
True, it seems rather mean to send Harvard to its doom for the delight of the fans. Yes, Crimson players must have felt really awful after being doubled by the Dukies or crushed in Cameron year after year. But once the initial pain diminishes, Harvard can feel proud of the fact that they played Duke. Practically all Harvard players do not make the NBA, but they should be able to buy a Celtics ticket and say, "I guarded...
Nick Poole's empty-net goal with 32 seconds left sealed Harvard's fate, much to the delight of one happy goaltender. (Hint: he did not wear the "Veritas" on his shoulder...
...between architecture and the human body. On his return to France, Poussin visited Nimes (as Thomas Jefferson would, 150 years later) to admire its Roman temple, the so-called Maison Carree. "The beautiful girls you will have seen at Nimes," he wrote to Chantelou, "will not, I am sure, delight your spirits less than the sight of the beautiful columns ... since the latter are only ancient copies of the former." One of his finest late paintings, Eliezer and Rebecca, 1649, was conceived in exactly this spirit. Nowhere, perhaps, in 17th century painting is there a more beautiful frieze of figures...