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Smiting the wicked became a habit. During World War II, he wrote a letter warning Japanese Emperor Hirohito: "Surrender or be totally annihilated and become extinct." Three months later the atom bomb fell on Hiroshima. As Father Divine put it: "Things just don't happen. Things happen just...
...stripped of flesh, transcendentally vaporous, symbols of life beyond death. So otherworldly was Byzantine art that by the time Charlemagne was crowned, images of the sacred figures had been banned for 74 years. Eastern iconoclasm had emphatically blotted out the Greco-Roman exaltation of living man. The new Carolingian Emperor personally set about to change the art of his times...
...Christmas day in the year 800, Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne a Roman Emperor. Philosopher Oswald Spengler dismissed Charlemagne's rule as "a surface episode without issue." H. G. Wells labeled it a poor copy of the Caesars. Although Charlemagne did not impress some modern historians, he did inspire the craftsmen and artists of his own era. This summer a mammoth exhibition of 700 Carolingian art works is on view in Aachen, Germany, the Emperor's historic seat of power...
Cartooning the Gospels. Before Charlemagne, the barbarian art of Europe was a welter of interlace−a primitive, restless filling of space that spread tendrilous patterns across armor, manuscripts and utensils. The worldly, warring Emperor, who inspired the epic Song of Roland, brought back the three-dimensional image of man. Carved in ivory book covers, illuminated on paper (see opposite page), the human form struggled through spaghetti-like barbarian curlicues and unearthly Eastern symbolism. Carolingian images of Christ are distinguishable from Eastern icons by the absence of a beard, the presence of youthful muscles...
Ever since the 19th century days of Emperor Dom Pedro II, the Brazilian stock market has been a scene of chaos. The coun try's major stock exchange in Rio de Janeiro has been presided over by a closed group of 40 brokers who passed their seats on the bolsa down through their families, collected such lucrative commis sions on currency-exchange transactions that they have had little incentive to push stock purchases. Long confined to only two hours a day, the trading sessions usually took place amid such bedlam that little serious business was ever ac complished...