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...were not overly burdened with the urge to keep church and state separate. John H. Laubach, in his book, School Prayers: Congress, the Courts and the Public, writes: "The Puritan settlement . . . of Massachusetts Bay . . . established under Governor Winthrop . . . in the seventeenth century sought to join the cross and the sword in founding a new Israel, following the Calvinist model." In 1639, the General Court of Massachusetts summoned Ann Hutchinson, charging that she allowed religiously unorthodox people to meet in her home and air their unseemly doctrines. Part of the transcript of the trial reads...
...mouth froth, a dentifrice rather than a drama. Vonnegut's cute conceit has been to debunk the Ulysses myth in terms of the Hemingway legend. As Vonnegut sees it, war is a kind of priapic transplant for men whose sexual insecurity demands the bolstering arsenal of the sword, the gun, the hunt and the kill. As amateur psychologizing, that may be perfectly acceptable; as drama, it turns out to be perfectly dreadful...
...glories of ancient times. A long and luminous success for the Arabs began in the 7th century with the appearance of Mohammed, along with his religion Islam (submission to God's will) and his 80,000-word book of holy writ, the Koran. Under Mohammed's exhortations, the flaming sword of Islam extended Moslem dominion across the Mediterranean basin. Arab armies broke the Byzantine and Persian empires and carried the crescent emblem of Mohammedanism as far west as Spain and southern France and as far east as India and the Chinese border. Saladin, a Kurdish warrior raised in 12th century...
...Juan workshop, Designer Gonzalo Chavez, 36, a native New Yorker who calls himself Mr. Terp, has been painstakingly assembling pop-top rings into glittering dresses, vests, stoles, belts, miniskirts and maxiskirts-all resembling the mailed armor worn by warriors of the Middle Ages to ward off sword blows. Collecting the rings from rubbish heaps behind San Juan bars, Chavez files down their rough edges' and crochets them together with silver thread. It is a slow process. When he began making the pop-tops last spring, it took Chavez a day to complete a 600-ring vest 20 inches long...
Still, the necessity to serve both God and Caesar weighs heavily on many churchmen. Others philosophically shrug it off, with the ancient and oft-repeated Rumanian proverb: "He who lowers his head avoids the sword...