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...makes Zurbaran look primitive. One senses this even in Zurbaran's most ambitious work, the immense altarpiece he did in 1638-40 for the ) Monastery of Nuestra Senora de la Defension in Jerez, the majority of whose surviving parts -- scattered long ago among museums in America, Spain, France and Scotland -- have been reunited for the first time, in the Met, for this show. Its most beautiful panels, The Adoration of the Magi and The Circumcision, are crowded with relatively still figures and seem to come out of the old world of Titian and Veronese. But when it came to mobilizing...
Davidson said Goodenough had planned to spend the fall semester in Scotland. But when the trip fell through, she decided to remain in Cambridge...
Hess appeared briefly on the world's center stage in May 1941, when he made a quixotic flight to Scotland. Dressed in the uniform of a Luftwaffe captain, the No. 2 ranking Nazi flew a Messerschmitt fighter from Germany and parachuted into an area near the estate of the Duke of Hamilton. He was promptly captured by an astonished farmer. Hess believed he was obeying supernatural powers and explained that he had come on a mission to end the war. Apprised of Hess's flight, Hitler declared that his deputy should be clapped in a madhouse or shot. The British...
...poor and Calvinist upbringing (he was born at Clydebank in Scotland, brought to the U.S. at eleven) instilled a strict moral sense in Reston. As a young reporter covering Franklin Roosevelt he refused to join the "coterie of reporters who played cards with the President at night at Warm Springs" and then in the 1944 election failed to report his weakened health. Such dereliction shocked Reston and put him on guard against presidential intimacy. "In 40 years, I've only been in the living quarters of the White House five times," he says, and disapproves of Columnist George Will...
...sweep away a World War I law enacted to ensure that munitions workers remain on the job and sober. But the change remains controversial 15 years after it was first recommended by a government committee. Critics claim that longer drinking hours will promote alcohol abuse. Supporters point out that Scotland, which dropped its restrictions in 1977, has found no increase in alcoholism. If Parliament approves the bill, as expected, the so-called dead afternoon will doubtless become more spirited...