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...Mass, bread and wine undergo "transubstantiation." They become, except in outward appearances, the body and blood of Christ. The sacrament of holy orders, conferred on a priest by a duly consecrated bishop and only by a bishop, give the priest the power to effect this mystical change. The bishops, lineal successors to the first Apostles, received this commission through the Apostles from Christ himself at the Last Supper...
...Stijl. For art historians, the show is endlessly fascinating; no exhibit has attempted to interrelate these different schools since Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art's "Cubism and Abstract Art" in 1936. What makes the Buffalo survey particularly relevant to 1968 is the demonstration that the lineal descendants of constructivism are none other than the kinetic, op and minimal artists of today...
Probably the largest accumulation of investment capital is held by Manhattan's Morgan Guaranty Trust Co., a lineal descendant of J. P. Morgan & Co. By the best estimates, it administers 250 pension funds with assets totaling about $7 billion. All its stock trading decisions are initiated by one man: Carl Hathaway, 34, a Harvard graduate. He weighs the recommendations of the bank's analysts, makes his choices, and then presents them to a small group of senior officers-who almost always go along with his advice. Morgan has concentrated one-third of its equity investments in just...
Divine Right. America has not just aged, according to Heren; it started old. Far from being steamy insurrectionists, the Founding Fathers were really "eighteenth century English gentlemen" who thought of themselves as engaged in a more or less orderly "transfer of power," with the presidency being merely the "lineal descendant of the colonial office of governor." In fact, Heren likes the institution of the U.S. presidency because it reminds him of "a latter-day version of a British medieval monarchy," with the Congress cast as the barons and the Supreme Court filling the role of the church. He even goes...
Janssen's savage and savagely portrayed world is in many ways familiar. The lineal ancestry of brutish whores and demonic cripples, bloated dwarfs and twisted drunkards, perverted bourgeois and browbeaten soldiers can clearly be traced back to Durer and then down through George Grosz. In his wispy cloudlike sketches and pastels lurks the orchidaceous venom of Odilon Redon. In his zinc-plated etchings there are shades of Max Beckmann. One, entitled Klee and Ensor Fighting over a Smoked Herring, acknowledges the artist's debt to both...