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...supreme ironies of Ireland's history that a mid-12th century Pope first granted the land to England. For centuries thereafter the English fitfully sought to establish their dominion over the warlike yet poetry-intoxicated Gaelic tribes. It was not until the Reformation, however, that London determined once and for all to bring Ireland and its stubborn Catholics to heel. English colonies were "planted" on Irish soil, often with great bloodshed; sometimes peasants were stripped naked and thrown into bogs for the amusement of the invaders. During the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, Poet Edmund Spenser witnessed the horrors...
...forced to the choice.) That should point toward a number of features in the fabric of the collective American sexual unconscious. Is there less potential for exploiting men's bodies than women's bodies? Are female bodies aesthetically more interesting (arresting, arousing, subtle) than male bodies, or has male dominion fixed that as a conditioned response? Is Warhol putting us on, or-in some insane, frenetic, and stupendous way-is he really on to something basic about the ways in which we look at ourselves...
...main roles were two: driving the rebel angels down to Hell (Michael replaced the fallen Lucifer as chief angel of Heaven) and weighing the souls of the dead, as in Memling's Last Judgment, for virtue and sin. The main reason for Gabriel and Michael's dominion in religious art may be that between them they summed up the main uses God had for his envoys: Gabriel the mediator, the bringer of grace, and Michael the warrior and deputy judge...
...wealthy industrialist who later became Secretary of the Treasury and U.S. Ambassador to Britain-awards grants in education, the arts, medicine, and other fields. It was created in 1968 by the merger of two older foundations-Avalon and Old Dominion-each of which had been endowed by one of Andrew Mellon's children: Ailsa Mellon Bruce and Paul Mellon...
...long and luminous success for the Arabs began in the 7th century with the appearance of Mohammed, along with his religion Islam (submission to God's will) and his 80,000-word book of holy writ, the Koran. Under Mohammed's exhortations, the flaming sword of Islam extended Moslem dominion across the Mediterranean basin. Arab armies broke the Byzantine and Persian empires and carried the crescent emblem of Mohammedanism as far west as Spain and southern France and as far east as India and the Chinese border. Saladin, a Kurdish warrior raised in 12th century Arab Damascus, defended the Holy...