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...local May Day parade by announcing that they were going to show up barefoot. Many Poles with a flair for the dramatic still dress in black, or at least wear a black ribbon, as a sign of national mourning over freedom lost. Others flaunt plastic badges of the Black Madonna of Czestochowa, the religious emblem associated with imprisoned Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa. To show they have not lost their sense of black humor, still others express resistance to martial law by quite literally wearing a resistor, a tiny radio part, as an ornament...
...gathered on the esplanade in front of the shrine, the Pope had a second escape to be grateful for. His words were somber, as if reflecting the violence of the night before as well as the "menace of evil" he saw spreading through the world. He called on the Madonna for deliverance "from famine and war . . . from sin against the life of man from its very beginning . . . from hatred . . . from every kind of injustice in the life of society." He asked for prayers for his upcoming trip to Britain, which is now in danger of being canceled under the cloud...
...Polish trip would create its own problems. During his moving and momentous Polish tour of 1979, the Pope indicated that he wanted to return in August 1982 for the sixth centennial of the icon of the Black Madonna, the center of the nation's major shrine. Last week, on the very day that martial-law authorities were breaking up demonstrations in a dozen or more Polish cities, the Pope told pilgrims in the Vatican gardens: "I am morally obliged to be together with my countrymen for this great anniversary...I hold this to be a duty of mine...
...show. Perhaps they are watching the most famous episode of Lucy, the birth in 1953 of Little Ricky. Frantic father-to-be Ricky Ricardo wants to cancel a performance of his nightclub act to join his wife at the hospital; Lucy, whose antic zaniness has been transmuted into the madonna-like calm then attributed to every expectant mother, sends him off to work with the unchallengeable claim: "You can't be where I am, anyway." And sure enough, when he takes her to the maternity ward, a nurse insists that the Ricardos kiss goodbye in the lobby. No husband...
Everyone knows something about Piet Mondrian; barely a detail of his life has escaped the attention of aspiring Ph.D.s, from the fantastic fox-trot routines that earned him the nickname the "dancing madonna," to the exact spot where an artificial tulip stood in his Paris studio (painted white, leaves and all, so as not to offend his eye with the detestable color green). Like Kandinsky, the other fa ther figure of abstract painting, he was a Theosophist: a man given to dreams of the millennium, when material reality would wither away and leave an ideal domain of the pure spirit...