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When Tito came to power, Archbishop Stepinac denounced his antichurch materialism and his political tyranny, drew a 17-day jail sentence in 1945. Curious about such a stubborn prelate, Tito summoned him and saw at once what he was up against. He tried to avoid a showdown with this sallow, unsmiling man. "I do not want steps taken against Stepinac," he is reported to have said afterward. "He has a martyr complex." But the outspoken archbishop was getting to be too much of a hero; people began to kneel as he passed on his daily walks through Zagreb...
...small, skylit shed set amid four tranquil acres of Hertfordshire farm land, an hour north of London. Inside, workbenches are covered with old bones, sticks, water-smoothed pebbles, shells from the English coast and the Riviera sands. On the walls are curious drawings in pencil or in sallow greens, yellows and reds-disturbing, faceless human forms composed of lines, curves, shadows and holes...
World War II brought him a special kind of recognition he never aspired to, when he went down into London's underground as a war artist to do a series of air-raid "shelter drawings." These, unique in their shrouded, sallow-hued style, conveyed with Dantean impact the spectacle of humanity huddled in refuge, yet fated to stir again, to live and to work on. Londoners, who would have blanched at the sight of his statues, recognized themselves in his swaddled figures, and hailed him as one of their...
...fellow students. Hospital duty during the 24-hour fast without food and water at Tish 'ah Be'ab (commemorating the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 A.D.) Dr. Twerski describes as "murder,'' and the last six years have left him hollow-eyed and slightly sallow. But he is eagerly looking forward to the next stage: a year of internship at Milwaukee's Mount Sinai Hospital, followed by a three-year residency in psychiatry...
Even when Tripp had triumphantly rounded out his 200 hours, his service to science was not ended. The researchers kept him awake for another hour of tests, taped leads to his head to get brain-wave readings and left them in place when, with eyes bloodshot and skin sallow, he fell asleep. During his 13-hour slumber they also ran electrocardiograms. Leary of the dangers of these stunts, Dr. West had not been able to promise Tripp that there would be no harmful effects. This week, though Tripp seemed outwardly well, he was still getting tests to make sure...