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...ways. The New World galvanized the European imagination; knowledge of its existence and its peoples was an important factor in the explosion of the Renaissance, which involved not only the reappropriation of classical learning but also the heady sense of a future yet to be discovered. In "To His Mistress Going to Bed," written roughly a century after Columbus' landing, the English poet John Donne describes his lover's disrobing until her final article of clothing is cast off and then exclaims, "O my America! my new-found land...
...proudly counterculture bar called Kirby's, blatant pro-lifers are likely to be booted from the premises. Elsewhere, pro-choicers face similar hazards. "I've been elbowed, stepped on, spit on and called Satan's mistress," says Marina Clemente, 26, who unwittingly entered a pro-life sandwich shop and found herself "verbally abused" by 20 patrons once she revealed her views. Others have been drawn closer together. "This is about the only thing my mother-in-law and I agree on," says Patricia Beltz, 36, as she waves a pro-choice placard in front of one of the clinics...
...pages; $19.95) puts forth the most imperfect of them all. The scurrilous, irritable Father Lar McAuliffe is assigned to test the claims of sainthood for his late detested colleague, John Cardinal McGlynn, martyred in Nicaragua. Father Lar rubs his hands in anticipation -- he knows all about the Cardinal's mistress, his alcoholism and his rumored misuse of church funds. But as the priest pokes through the debris of a dead man's life, he finds that His Eminence performed many hidden acts of bravery and altruism. Is he worthy of canonization? Or does the past throw too long a shadow...
When his wealthy Italian mistress dies, the amoral historian Max Mather inherits first choice from among her trove of paintings. Rummaging around, he finds two panels of aged wood. On them are portraits that have never been cataloged, both by Raphael, and each is worth in excess of $50 million. The Italian government may seize such rare items as national treasures, so Max works a scheme to spirit them out of the country. But this is only the beginning of Masterclass (St. Martin's Press; 330 pages; $19.95). Author Morris West (The Shoes of the Fisherman, The Clowns...
...garden and bridge clubs; they have exceptional houses, servants, luxuries -- and woes. A Glimpse of Scarlet (HarperCollins; 200 pages; $18.95) watches a divorced mother betrayed by her son's prep school roommate; a man's failing eyesight turn into a "treason of the body"; wavering between wife and mistress, a publishing executive experiences moral vertigo in his ordered world; a wife holds her husband up to public ridicule, only to have things turn around as soon as they are alone in the bedroom. Once people like these were the focus of Henry James and Edith Wharton; in recent years Louis...