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...enter the most recent wing of the Fogg Art Museum, you will be struck by the first exhibit on display: the bust of Saint Jerome, the third century Italian translator of the Bible into the Latin Vulgate. Stained with the terrible anguish that comes with the recognition of the sin of intellectual pride, Saint Jerome's eyes are closed, yet you can tell that they are full of the sorrow and contrition that only a sincerely devout human being can experience. Browsing through the corpulent volume entitled "Bernini" that is conveniently provided at the front of the exhibit, you will...
Anyone familiar with the Ecstasy of Saint Teresa will know that Gian Lorenzo Bernini, the greatest sculptor of the Roman Baroque, had to have been a deeply religious man. Nothing less than divine inspiration could have enabled him to create the works stamped with his trademark devotion--the extraordinarily vivid angels, seemingly descended directly from heaven in a swirl of fluid drapery, are instilled with awe and holy adoration that transcend the earthly constraints of clay...
...morning soft-news shows, hoping to convince us that the only problem Bill has is the right-wing conspiracy to destroy him. Someone needs to tell this woman that the first time a wife stands up for an allegedly adulterous husband, everyone thinks she's a saint. The second or third time, though, she begins to look disturbingly complicit...
Playing at the prep school level for Saint Thomas More against Dean's Harvard JV last year, Clemente sunk "five or six threes" in the first half, Dean recalls...
...public mind. Back in 1994, when he was engineering a series of interest-rate increases, the Federal Reserve chairman was regularly assailed as a zealot willing to strangle economic growth in pursuit of a chimerical goal of zero inflation. Today those jeers have melted to mild sarcasm. ALL HAIL SAINT ALAN, read buttons distributed by Bert Ely, an economic consultant who contends Greenspan is getting undeserved credit for the happy state of the U.S. economy. But to admirers, Greenspan is a monetary wizard. Says economist Allen Sinai: "The Greenspan Fed is the all-time champion in American history...