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...JUDITH AND HOLOFERNES, by the 15th century Paduan, ANDREA MANTEGNA, treats a bloody drama with chill grace. (The story, told in a book of the Apocrypha: Nebuchadnezzar sent an army against Bethulia under Captain Holofernes, who laid siege to the city. Judith, a lovely, pious and patriotic widow of Bethulia, made her way into Holofernes' camp, tent, and affections. After three days' dalliance she caught him napping, removed his head, and stole back to town with her trophy. Soon afterwards the siege was lifted.) Mantegna's panel was probably one of a series on the theme...
...didn't have Von Neurath, we would all go crazy." They were an ill-assorted lot: fat, bald, obscene Walter Funk (No. 6); rich, young, suicidal Baldur von Schirach (No. 1); dangerous, unrepentant ex-Admiral Karl Doenitz (No. 2); weird, half-sane Rudolf Hess (No. 7): arthritic, pious ex-Admiral Erich Raeder (No. 4). Von Neurath would recall for them the glittering days when he was his country's envoy to the Kings of Italy and Great Britain. He had been a childhood friend of Britain's Queen Mary, who called him "Little Konstantin," and once...
...tale of the "Praying Colonels" of 1921 has now become almost synonymous with the word upset itself. The unusual team's pious customs were enough to warrant a contest in the Stadium, aside from the fact Centre College was becoming the favorite team of the nation...
...Conversion. The pious parents of William Franklin Graham Jr. planted his feet firmly on the path of truth and righteousness. His farmer father once gave him a hiding in church with his broad leather belt for fidgeting during the sermon. The day beer was taken off Prohibition, Billy's father went to town and bought a case. Then, in an awesome atmosphere of ritual sacrifice, he forced Billy and one of his sisters to guzzle bottle after bottle until they were sick. "It was awful," recalls Billy. He has never touched it since...
...sure, in the days when, according to a pious correspondent, "this hath been a place certainly more free from temptations to lewdness than ordinarily England has been . . .',, locking the gates was sure-fire, but the College has since spread out a little. Rank riot and excess in the form of Cambridge streets awaits every sophomore, junior, and senior who leaves his room. The subway stands ready to rocket inmates of the Houses into "the company and society of such men who lead an ungirt and dissolute life," and all the chained gates in Cambridge cannot revive President Chauncey...