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Naturally, secular art was more relaxed. The homosexual content of Greek art is lovingly preserved in a tiny blue glass roundel made in Alexandria in the late 3rd century A.D. Called a portrait of "Gennadios most accomplished in the musical art," and rendered with innumerable scratches of a needle on a sheet of gold leaf, it presents a young man who, from his curly hair, might be a cousin of Leonardo's boyfriend Salai. It is not, of course, the only masterpiece of portraiture in the show. The tradition of the Roman portrait bust was kept and amplified among patrician...
...Astronomer Robert Jastrow, founder and director of NASA'S Goddard Institute. Since it is impossible to prove whether life on earth was created by the will of some supreme � creative being, or evolved spontaneously, says Jastrow, the choice either way is "an act of faith." Even among highly secular folk there is a general disposition to assume, as never before, that if God does not exist it may be necessary for man to reinvent...
...anecdotes. About Balthus, none are in circulation. At 69 he has no public face. When André Malraux made him director of the French Academy in Rome-a post Balthus held for 16 years until his retirement a few months ago-Balthus kept fastidiously to himself even as the secular cardinal of Villa Medici. His output is small. He rarely exhibits; Balthus' last New York show...
...presidency, many Protestants feared he might be dominated by the church's hierarchy, which had long fought against liberalized divorce laws, against artificial birth control and for censorship of books and movies. Kennedy defused that issue by confronting a group of Texas ministers and convincing them that secular principles would govern his decisions. Since then, of course, many Catholics have adopted far more permissive views. A report last June, commissioned by the Catholic Theological Society, said that just about any form of sex, including both homosexuality and adultery, could be considered acceptable, so long as it is "self-liberating...
...tremendous whole that goes beyond worldly distinctions and time restrictions. He feels the immense power of Islam as it weaves its universal and humane principles in all people of the world. A bond of brotherhood ensues forming the nucleus for future world peace. Freed from the blinding limitations of secular nationalism, the Moslem can begin to identify himself with a universal message that calls for brotherly cohesiveness and peaceful co-existence...