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...Senate to filibuster against it? There is a splendid irony in this worldwide rush to repentance. All the remorse is for misdeeds committed by others, decades and even centuries ago. The Pope got the ball rolling in 1995 when he apologized for the stake burnings and other pious tortures meted out by the Counter-Reformation in the 16th century. What comes next? The Italian government, heir to the gore and glory that was Rome, should certainly express regret for the intemperate sack of Carthage. (Reparations optional.) Congress could withhold aid to Egypt until the Mubarak government sheds a few public...
...many ways the most pious and morally obsessed of nations outside the Islamic world. Recent polls suggest that 96% of Americans believe in a personal God and that 78% of them think their consciousness will survive death and go, after judgment, to heaven or hell. Its earliest colonists in the Northeast--Pilgrims, Puritans, Quakers, "Pennsylvania Dutch"--were all seeking to flee European persecution and corruption (as they saw it) and trying to set up various kinds of religious Utopias. The main tool of Catholic Spain's colonization in the Southwest was the Franciscan mission. And yet the paradoxical fact...
...metamorphic landscapes, hardly compare with his work in the 1920s. And though Chagall's Yellow Crucifixion, 1943, swarms with images of contemporary loss and persecution--the burning shtetl, the fleeing refugees, the sinking torpedoed ship--its formal softness indicates the turn his work would take after the war toward pious ethno-kitsch...
...never to emerge again. Brought up from age eight in the miseries of Catholic boys' homes (and later in an asylum for feebleminded children, from which he managed to escape at 16), he supported himself for decades doing menial work in several Catholic hospitals. Intensely, not to say neurotically, pious, he went to Mass as often as five times a day. For the last 40 years of his life he dwelled in a small rented room on Chicago's North Side, from which he would timorously sally forth to collect street trash. After his pauper's death, hundreds of empty...
...nations, Glandelinia, is villainously cruel and built on child slavery. The good country of Abbiennia, on the other hand, is pious, Catholic and freedom loving, and it goes to war against the Glandelinians to liberate the tots. In its struggles it is led by seven little princesses called the Vivian sisters (shades of Enid Blyton and Ethel M. Dell!). They are aided by benign dragonlike beasts called Blengins. Virtue triumphs in the end--over whole landscapes of child corpses. Since Darger probably began writing the work between 1910 and 1912, it's likely that his unreadable Iliad of two nations...