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Copley had invented Romantic horror-painting, but he never followed up his invention. That remained for Frenchman Theodore Gericault, whose Raft of the Medusa (see color) came 40 years later. Critics have made much of what Gericault owed to Michelangelo and Caravaggio, have tended to overlook his connection with Copley. Yet the similarity of composition (a pyramid tilted toward the horizon) and especially of spirit argues for Gericault's having known Copley's picture. Splendid though they are. both Copley's and Gericault's men-against-the-sea-scapes seem as dated today as they once...
...Panama or Liberia, the ships pay only nominal taxes,* e.g., 10? a ton yearly, employ nonunion crews and are unlikely ever to be seized for defense reasons. Niarchos, in addition, pays no corporate taxes on most of his profits. These are considerations which no banker can afford to overlook. As an approving London banker said recently: "The great virtue of Niarchos is that he's a gypsy...
...first, the guards in the armored train ahead tried to fight off the unseen attackers with gunfire, but after a moment they gave up and steamed away, ostensibly to get reinforcements. Meanwhile, a detachment of guards in the rear car of the express lay low, hoping the bandits would overlook them. It was a vain hope. Concentrating their aim on the rear car, the bandits pinned down the guards with a barrage of Bren and Sten gunfire, turning aside only to kill any passengers from the train who tried to escape. Then, going systematically through the cars, they stripped...
...Sincere response to the will of God literally makes it impossible for us to be 'holier than thou' reformers when we look at the South," he told his congregation last February, "and at the same time overlook social irresponsibility and stark prejudice right under our very noses . . . What does your experience of God say? Shall we continue to segregate ourselves into white churches in Boston? If we do, can we still call ourselves Christians and followers of Jesus ?" Pastor Hale announced his intention to hire a Negro minister to replace the minister to students, who was leaving...
...mainly of Japanese military forces when Japan may very well join the neutrals if her economic dilemma remains unsolved. He has staked U.S. prestige on the defense of two unimportant and indefensible islands off the Chinese coast, and he refuses to see that the U.S. must stop trying to overlook the existence of Communist China...