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Into Carolingian manuscripts crept the idea of narrative illustration rather than static devotional icons, the better to teach the word of God. The famous Utrecht Psalter abandoned elaborate gilding to accompany the Gospels with cursive, pen-and-ink cartooning. By the time the Carolingian Renaissance subsided in the late 10th century, art was no longer the same as religion, only its handmaiden. As the Libri Carolini put it in the late 8th century: "The sacrament is nourishment for the soul. Pictures are food only for the eyes." So the Carolingian renaissance opened the way for the later, greater Renaissance...
...India are grave indeed. First on the list is the perennial problem of providing enough food for a population that is growing at a rate of 3% a year. The cause of last year's food crisis was simple enough: for three straight years, Indian grain production remained static at 80 million tons. Sharp traders from Bombay to Calcutta capitalized on the underproduction by buying up wheat in the fields, then quietly ordering farmers to hold their crops for future delivery after prices had soared higher. In Shastri's home state, wheat that had been selling...
...rethinking eucharistic doctrine, the theologians speak of the "signchange" that takes place in the elements in existential categories rather than sticking to the static, mechanistic terms of the Scholastics. Their basic point is that the change takes place amid what they call an "inter-person activity": the encounter of man and God at the Mass. There Christ gives himself, makes himself present, to his people. Father Smits compares Christ's giving himself to the gesture of a Dutch housewife who offers her guests tea and cookies. Just as the housewife offers not food itself but her welcome "incarnated...
...more official than wifely. Said Pat White to her husband: "Now have a drink of water." White answered: "Roger. Standing by for a drink of water." Pat McDivitt told Jim, "Disconnect your headset communications at the neck ring from now on at the start of your sleep period. No static on that. Did you get the message to disconnect your headset?" McDivitt came in loud, clear and obedient: "I sure...
...Grant Sawyer, 46, is an official car. Enjoyed? It's a black 1962 Lincoln Continental, and it has left him stranded a dozen times in the past three years. Worse yet, every time he tries to radio the highway patrol to come rescue him, all he gets is static. "It makes so much noise that you have to keep it turned off," says Sawyer, adding that the air conditioning works in winter, the heater in summer. Now, after much pleading, Grant is getting a new auto, once again a Lincoln Continental, but neither he nor the Nevada legislature...