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...Quest. The Wren church that Westminster College finally settled on was St. Mary the Virgin, which was more simple, restrained and less celebrated than some of Wren's other churches. Still, in many ways it has a classical elegance equaled by few. The church was built on the foundations of an earlier church; its facade was constructed with a triangular pediment surmounting a Romanesque window flanked by Baroque volutes. The slim neo-Romanesque belfry contained five bells and was surmounted by a lead-sheathed clock tower...
...this raises the question of Who is Mercy Humppe? An archetype of sorts? Hieronymous Merkin, her lover, says she is "the personification of every nymphet he ever chased across the green meadows of (his) imagination." In fact, she is more than that. Mercy Humppe is a virgin who makes love gladly and, therefore, a kind of magical creature. I mean how many girls could you be as sure about. You've seen her take her clothes off. You've seen him take her clothes off. There is no question about Mercy and yet there is. After six times...
...Bernet's expert, John Hayward, to be either Italian or Spanish. One of the loveliest gems in the Gutman collection is a 17th century enameled gold votive crown by an anonymous Peruvian goldsmith. It was probably commissioned by a grateful grandee whose prayer to a saint or the Virgin had been answered, and was intended to be reverently set before the saint's altar in some unknown church...
...stances have sort of become my trademark," she observes, then demonstrates on her Beverly Hills diving board. There is the Amazon Triumphant (Raquel with feet wide apart and arms overhead, embracing the sun). The Virgin Victim (Raquel crouching, head tilted upward, flinching). The Mistress of James Bond (Raquel with legs apart and hands on hips, eyes smoking...
Like many another basic Christian doctrine - the virgin birth, the divinity of Christ, the existence of heaven and hell - the traditional concept of original sin is currently undergoing more se rious and skeptical scrutiny than ever be fore. Liberal Protestants began their criticism in the last century; now many Catholic thinkers are also challenging the doctrine. One of the latest broad sides is the work of the Rev. Herbert Haag, a Catholic Biblical scholar at the University of Tübingen in Germany. In his new book, called Is Original Sin in Scripture? (Sheed & Ward; $3.95), Haag argues that there...