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...Daniel in the Lions' Den is an early Rubens, dating near 1610. It was a popular Biblical subject for Flemish artists. But other representations were pallid compared to Rubens', who, according to Rosenberg, "gets to the heart of it, the drama and significance of the story." Other artists' lions were "only little toys, poodles," by comparison. In keeping with the Renaissance adoration of man, Daniel is more hero than saint...
...Pallid Disciple...
Thus, in a pallid parody of the American Declaration of Independence, the white-supremacist regime of Rhodesia's Ian Smith finally made good its threats of two years, broke its ties with Commonwealth and Crown, and assumed its "sovereign independence...
Only three hours after he had awakened, Johnson walked a few steps. He complained of "some discomfort," looked pallid and faced the irksome prospect of a lightened work load until mid-November. Some slowdown! The morning after his operation, newsroom teletypes across the U.S. clattered out an Associated Press bulletin: WASHINGTON, OCT. 9 (AP) PRESIDENT JOHNSON WAS UP BEFORE DAWN TODAY AND SIGNED INTO LAW 13 BILLS...
Speaking to more than 1400 college presidents and administrators at the annual meeting of the American Council on Education, Katzenbach said that student grievances, "however deeply felt, are so pallid by comparison with those of the Negro that to demonstrate over them can be to dilute and debase the moral significance of demonstrations for civil rights...