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...Scaffold. The schism brought wars, rebellion, and shaped the history of Britain. Henry VIII beheaded the two most eminent men of his realm: Sir Thomas More and John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester. In the Roman Catholic revival under Henry's daughter, the Queen the English called "Bloody Mary," nearly 300 persons were burned to death as heretics. Under Queen Elizabeth I, over 100 Roman Catholics went to the scaffold as traitors...
Originally, the aim of the surrealists-aside from the aim to shock and to make publicity-was to open up the realm of hallucination, of legend, dreams, and even madness. "The marvelous is always beautiful; any facet of the marvelous is beautiful; indeed, only the marvelous is beautiful," wrote Breton. In one way, time has been kind to the movement, for the best of its members were good artists. But in a world so inured to artistic high jinks, much of the marvelous is gone...
...view than Western-oriented democracies, Schwarts concluded, they are not unacceptable from the American point of view. "If you get a many-sided world with many polarities," he said, the Communist prediction of eventual world victory "will gradually pass over from the category of an operative doctrine to the realm of ritualistic dogma."BENJAMIN I. SCHWARTZ...
...than 6 ft. tall and past 80 in age, the gorgeously robed Fon moves through Author Durrell's pages like the mythic club member of some eternally tipsy Olympus. The Fon also regaled Durrell with a pidgin-English account of Queen Elizabeth's tour of the neighboring realm. "Dis Queen woman she get plenty power. She walker walker she never shweat. Na foine woman...
...Holy See (e.g., abortion, physical attack on the clergy, etc.). If a penitent is denied absolution by one priest, he may seek out another whose viewpoint is congenial to his. Furthermore, a Puerto Rican Catholic might believe that voting for the P.D.P. was a political matter outside the realm of faith and morals, and considered the bishops' letters merely advisory exhortations. In that case, if the voter has considered carefully and acted in good faith, he can be held sinless in respect to the vote. A top Vatican official explained the fine distinction: "Bishops are mortals...