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...supposed from his famous dictum that "religion is the opium of the people." Garaudy argues that this condemnation must be understood as a response to the church's alliance with 19th century Europe's capitalist and authoritarian regimes. Marx and even Lenin, says Garaudy, were careful to distinguish the institutionalized church as they knew it from early Christianity, which was genuinely "revolutionary and democratic in spirit." Moreover, Marx acknowledged that Christianity had raised the right questions about man's alienation from society even if it gave the wrong, otherworldly answers...
Pumpkins & Artichokes. A reminder that the birth of Christ has fruitfulness for one of its main themes is The Holy Family, a collaboration between Jan Bruegel ("the Velvet Bruegel," to distinguish him from his father, Pieter) and a virtually anonymous fellow Fleming, Pieter van Avont. With pagan profusion, Bruegel lavished his brushwork on the garlands shaped like an M in homage to the Virgin. Incorporated into the salady festoon are samples of all that the hothouses, orangeries and private zoos of Flemish aristocracy could offer. Roses and carnations are mixed with more pungent garlics, cabbages and peppers; common wheat...
BIRDS OF THE NORTHERN FOREST, paintings by J. F. Lansdowne, text by John A. Livingston. 247 pages. Houghton Mifflin. $20. Paintings of birds to rank with those of Gould and Audubon distinguish this sumptuous volume devoted to Canadian birds, most of them, of course, with dual citizenship in the U.S. Lansdowne is an artist who gratifies the ornithologist with his precision and detail, and he charms the print fancier with his grace and delicacy of tone. Worth the price of 30 bushels of sunflower seeds...
...Communist troops that they had sighted, two platoons of the 1st Cavalry (Airmobile), the division that inflicted last year's la Drang defeat on the Communists, were heavily outnumbered and badly mauled by the "gooks"-as the Air Cav has taken to calling the North Vietnamese to distinguish them from the Viet Cong...
...strings did not distinguish themselves except by their sensitivity in balancing their volume with what the singers were able to produce. However, Warren Steel produced an imaginative realization of Purcell's harpsichord part, and his short interludes were among the most delightful moments of what was overall quite a good performance...