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...biblical Deborah, who led the Israelites to victory against the Canaanites. The Byzantine Empress Theodora, who inspired most of the important legislation of Justinian's reign. Catherine the Great of Russia, who had skills-and drives-as prodigious as her legendary predecessor Peter. From Nefertiti, the Maid of Orleans and Elizabeth I down to modern times, women leaders have left their mark. The 1970s alone have seen no fewer than four female heads of state: Israel's Golda Meir, India's Indira Gandhi, Sri Lanka's Sirimavo Bandaranaike and Argentina's Isabelita...
Nine years ago, Taylor and his wife Theodora moved from Harlem to a five-room cooperative apartment in predominantly white Riverdale. There Taylor likes to relax by sampling the 5,000 LPs and tapes that line one wall (with considerably more pleasure than when he was a deejay looking for broadcast material) and watching reruns of westerns on TV. The Taylors' friends include more doctors, judges and art directors than musicians. Evenings out usually mean a French restaurant and a play or concert-or one of Taylor's innumerable board meetings...
Meeting the demand is driving dealers and amateurs alike to unusual measures in acquiring even low-priced finds. Warner Bros. Costume Designer Theodora Van Runkle bought a 1937 Chevrolet convertible five years ago for $200. The car looks like an old Bentley and recently attracted a $3,000 offer from a passer-by on the street. "It used to be that you could go to Europe and pick up an old Rolls or Mercedes for practically nothing," says Charles Schmitt, a Los Angeles dealer. "Now the European collectors are coming over here." Says Sugarman: "You can spend months tracking...
...concept of an angel," wrote one recent student of the creatures, Theodora Ward, in Men and Angels, "is peculiar to the monotheistic religions, in which the immensity of the power concentrated in one universal god must somehow be channeled to reach the needs of man, as a great river may be diverted into a system of ducts to irrigate fields." But how to embody this concept? The first angels in Christian art look like ordinary men, whether painted on catacomb walls or preserved in mosaic on the 5th century walls of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome. What the artist stresses...
They deserve better, even from 20th century man, says Critic and Biographer Theodora Ward. Modest, scholarly, at times profoundly thoughtful, her new look traces the story of angel visitations through theology, philosophy and art from angelic beginnings in Jewish and Christian scriptures up to the present. Miss Ward's conclusion: angels are in for a renaissance...