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...measure the reign of a religious leader not by sermons or doctrinal documents, but by signs, that moment in Poland is arguably the most significant chapter of this three-year-old papacy. A German pontiff, 60 years later, crosses paths with a rainbow on the grounds of Auschwitz, a word from the sky for that which we have no words...
...remember what we saw at Auschwitz. Even the most hardened Vatican reporter's voice lowers to a whisper when remembering Pope Benedict XVI's visit to the Nazi death camp on May 28, 2006. The German pontiff had arrived under threatening skies, which later turned to a soft but steady rain shower as he toured the grounds, met with Holocaust survivors and read his theological discourse that asked, "Why Lord did you remain silent?" But by the time Benedict was standing before a memorial by the ruins of a crematorium, the rain had stopped, and a vivid rainbow appeared across...
...different places, feel like they have gotten to know from afar, the Rome of our age. And yes, he'd watched this city on his television that September day, from a safe distance in modern-day Rome, just like this New York-born reporter - and yes, also like the German-born future Pope. Two-thirds of the way to the top of the ramp, Ignazio and I turned around for another perspective. The "footprint" looked no smaller, and the remaining buildings no taller. It was still cold and the fog was hanging just as heavy as when we'd arrived...
Despite its lime-green background, “A Taste of Power: 18th Century German Porcelain for the Table” is easy to miss at first among the many other works of art currently on view at the Busch-Reisinger Museum. The exhibition, which runs through June 30, is surprisingly small, consisting of four cases housing a total of only five porcelain figurines. However, what the pieces lack in size, they make up for in beauty. Each precious inch of the figurines is carefully painted and lined with a surprising amount of detail. Their life-like, agile representations...
...then-girlfriend Jillian; he cannot conceive of marriage as a possibility in the wake of political disaster. This is the only perspective the novel presents. Though Gessen implicitly acknowledges that this perspective is flawed and at times ridiculous (as when Mark likens his sexual fumblings to the German communist Karl Liebnicht’s failed revolution), he presents no alternative. Even at the end of the novel, in 2008, the fictional Keith still thinks in political terms: his friends’ weddings are insignificant because “the Bush years were winding down disgracefully, the Iraq war was lost...