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...Spaniards. I spent the summer studying the institution of trial marriage which legend says was imposed on his subjects by the Inca himself. Four centuries of constant attack by the Church have had no influence in weakening this custom, and Vicos marriage remains an interesting mixture of pagan and Catholic traditions...
...Brilliantly carved, the portrait-head vibrates with nearly fanatic spirituality," Hanfmann said. "It well expresses the spirit of transition from the Roman to the Christian world, when pagan philosophers and Christian saints shared an intensive quest of otherworldiness." Because the artists tried to portray the subject's inner life, scholars have described such works as soul-portraits...
...Before the muted grey stylized panels, columns and stairs of the palace facade, the drama of man's willful pride goes on unmuted. But the play's hypnotic center is Aspassia Papathanassiou as she seethes with mother hate and sways before high winds of woe. As primordially pagan as a bolt of lightning hurled from the hand of Zeus, her Electra consumes the stage with quenchless fire. To see it is to see a classic become a conflagration...
...tragedy of will. The underlying unity of Shakespearean tragedy, as Steiner sees it, is "the universal drama of the fall of man." This introduces Christian values without the Christian metaphysic, which is nontragic, since it contains the hope of heaven and redemptive grace. Critic Steiner fails to explore one pagan link between Greek and Shakespearean tragedy, the obsession with death. In the Elizabethan theater, death often plays the role of nemesis...
...that Lloyd George, besides being a great man, also lived up to the English legend-that the Welsh are lechers and Bible bashers, musicians and bards, and, from Henry Tudor to Aneurin Bevan, have had a capacity for stirring up trouble. Lloyd George was a humbug ("a Bible-thumping pagan," is his son's phrase), something very close to a crook (the question of a political fund, most of which may have stuck in his own pocket, was never cleared up), and a sedulous seducer on a scale "unprecedented" in the history of British statesmanship...