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...only did he record all the gos sip, true and untrue; he also took time out to describe the works he most ad mired. Among them were Giotto's 14th century frescoes, presumably on the life of the Virgin, in Florence's Badia church. Particularly singled out by Vasari was the panel showing "Our Lady when she is announced...
...Colonial Secretaries could keep track of their far-flung charges. A lady at a London banquet in 1852 once asked Colonial Secretary John Pakington where the Virgin Islands were. He is supposed to have replied imperiously: "As far as possible, my dear lady, from the Isle of Man." A President of the Orange Free State in South Africa reported his experience in 1876 with another Colonial Secretary who "unfolded a pocket map and begged that I would point out to him where the Orange Free State...
...very first scene. A funeral procession cuts its way through the streets of a small Spanish village with a huge, elaborately decorated altar in the middle of the procession. Rosi's camera, plays upon the decorations of the altar and the placid smile on a statue of the Virgin Mary and then tilts downward to the miserable peasant boys who must carry the altar on their shoulders. Throughout the film, trappings constantly give way to sordid details in this...
...nature and to identify even with nature's terrible aspects. India's mother goddess, giver of life, is also black and bloody Kali, the bringer of death and destruction. The West divides good and evil, and thinks evil can be destroyed-St. George killing the dragon, the Virgin crushing the serpent beneath her heel. The Hindus revere the serpent as the symbol of all nature, good and vile together. Asians generally are capable of believing that something is simultaneously good and bad, right and wrong, black and white-in a manner that drives the Western, Aristotelian, either...
...celebrations-could only be transported around Poland in "a closed car." The warning went unheeded. Last week a group of students in Lublin grabbed the portrait after a cathedral ceremony and carried it down the main street to the cheers of tens of thousands of Poles. "The Virgin Mary," Cardinal Wyszynski explained later, "traveled to Bethlehem on foot, so our youth did not want her to travel by car." At Lublin's Catholic University, the only one of its kind in Eastern Europe, the cardinal was even more emphatic. "Youth is struggling for truth," he said. "If this right...