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...Divinity School itself, Pusey praised its "glorious record of achievement" and noted in reviewing the School's history that the traditional problem of whether the School should concentrate on scholarship or professional preparation has been resolved so that both are now adequately provided
...Venice's once-grand traditions, none seemed destined for a more in glorious end than painting. Not that good painters did not exist. Canaletto and the Guardi brothers turned out thousands of panoramic Venetian views whose impeccable architecture and exquisite plays of light have since delighted generations, while Pietro Longhi mastered a mellow irony to reveal the domestic texture of Venetian life. But it remained for an extraordinarily forceful young artist named Giovanni Battista Tiepolo to ascend that decaying stage and transform shimmer and shadow into one last dramatic moment for Venetian painting...
...Boers' glorious freedom ended in 1814, when the Dutch ceded the Cape Colony to Britain during the Napoleonic Wars. The British brought in property laws, courts, and worst of all, government. Shocked at the treatment of the natives, London ordered all slaves freed, proclaimed Coloreds, Hottentots, and even Bushmen equal...
Religious antagonisms have long been strong in Ireland, especially since 1690, when Britain's "Glorious Revolution" secured Protestant ascendancy to Ulster. To try to ease the old hatreds, Protestant O'Neill broke all precedent last year by inviting the Republic of Ireland's Catholic Premier Sean Lemass to Belfast. It was then that Paisley, fearing a sellout to the Catholics, began stumping Ulster's six counties, attacking everyone from the Pope ("old red socks") to the Archbishop of Canterbury ("another traitor"). "O'Neill might as well try to stop Niagara Falls with a teaspoon." Paisley...
...disaster. When it was concluded at the opening performance, one outraged man in the audience let out with a resounding boo; and only critical decorum prevented its being joined by at least one more. Joyce--and anyone else essaying the role--should study and restudy Marlon Brando's glorious Antony in the 1953 movie version...