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...fire's victim was a 42-year-old Spaniard named Michael Servetus. His crime, for which he had been duly tried and sentenced: religious heresy. Specifically, it was his denial of infant baptism and the doctrine of the Trinity. (The minister who accompanied him to the stake later observed that, had Servetus switched adjectives, and called on "the Eternal Son of God," he might have saved his life.) Last week, for the 400th anniversary of Servetus' death, Roland H. Bainton, one of Protestantism's foremost modern historians (Here I Stand, The Reformation of the 16th Century), brought...
...slept in tents, made their own beds. They read the Bible, learned chants and rituals, and rehearsed the religious play which climaxes each retreat. This one, titled The Spaniard, was about the life of Maimonides, 12th century Jewish philosopher, and was written by Film-scripter Michael Blankfort...
...moved aside to make room for it). Goya painted the Self Portrait in 1820 at the peak of his genius, as a tribute to a man he firmly believed saved his life. In 1819 Goya was 73 years old, totally deaf and seriously ill. Sickness always made the touchy Spaniard roar with anguish and self-pity. "I'm so frantic, I can scarcely stand myself," he told a friend. But a sympathetic doctor named Arrieta brought him around, and the artist decided to put his gratitude into a picture...
...Paris, the Spanish ambassador requested Rodriguez' arrest and extradition. France, sensing the Spaniard's urgency, offered to trade Rodriguez for Raymond Viadieu, onetime deputy mayor of Toulouse now serving eight years in a Spanish jail for espionage. Tipped off about the deal, Rodriguez and Africa flew off to Mexico, which has neither diplomatic relations nor an extradition treaty with Spain. Mexico, however, badly wanted to get its hands on a couple of Mexican counterfeiters who were living a high life in Madrid after swamping Latin America with fake pesos. Madrid proposed a subtle solution...
...beautifully." Her working plans include doing most of her writing in bed ("I hardly ever get up, unless there is some party which I think I will enjoy wildly"), and perhaps suggesting an idea or two on color schemes ("I know of a wonderful Elizabethan color called 'dead Spaniard,' but I can't remember whether it's brown...