Word: matthew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Apathetic Resignation? None of this means that NATO is falling apart, or even badly faltering. But to NATO Supreme Commander General Matthew B. Ridgway it was a bitter disappointment. "As the responsible military commander," he told a graduating class of SHAPE officers the day after the conference broke up, -"I reject as unjustifiably dangerous the view that potential aggressors do not want war, are not ready for war and will not precipitate war: that we are in for a long cold war and, therefore, should adjust our plans...
...ending two years of Anglo-American friction over command of NATO forces in the vital Mediterranean area. The solution was a kind of two-in-one oil: Britain and the U.S. will share joint command in the area, subject to the higher authority of NATO's Supreme Commander Matthew B. Ridgway...
...Milan last year, Art Critic Lionello Venturi paused before The Martyrdom of St. Matthew, famed masterpiece of 17th century Michelangelo da Caravaggio. Venturi had seen the painting often before in Rome's dimly lit church of San Luigi dei Francesi. But this time, aided by the strong artificial light of the Milan gallery, where it was on loan, he thought he saw a vague overlapping of paint surfaces around the fallen figure of St. Matthew. He persuaded government art authorities to X-ray the canvas...
...different versions make up a movie-like sequence of St. Matthew's assassination* by a hulking swordsman. In the first, the saint is on his feet, his hand raised against the sword. In the second (though his body does not appear), the position of the saint's head shows him kneeling or falling. In the version the world knows, St. Matthew lies sprawled on the ground, while the swordsman, straddling his body, prepares for the coup...
...Legend variously attributes Matthew's death to fire, stoning and the sword. The exact circumstances are unknown...