Word: virtuous
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...Ghent's and Belgium's pride, lost only partial glory in 1816 when two panels were sold to Prussia. By the Treaty of Versailles these two were returned to Ghent. But last week there were only eleven in all. Gone was the 54-by-22-inch The Virtuous Judges (red and blue-cloaked riders backgrounded by crags and castles) and the grey John the Baptist painted on the other side. Because where once hung the panel in the Flemish galleries of the Berlin Museum there was tacked a placard reading, TAKEN FROM GERMANY BY THE VERSAILLES TREATY...
Jesus, put your arms around New York. Hug her to death, Lord. . . . Is New York going to Heaven? Is she going to pray? To be sober? True? Virtuous...
...hire a doctor. The shock of almost being had by her father on the night after her abortion (a rape is only a rape, they say, but this somehow seems a little more) is too much, and she dies with her penitent pater and no less penitent though virtuous mater at her bedside, resolving to tell their next daughter what's what before it's too late. The fade-out is a sweetly murmured "Daddy... It seemed like such a beautiful road...but it was only..." The slimy scoundrel who debauched her is presumably out wreaking his lustful will...
...with such appalling swiftness that it had to be hammered into the coffin; Isabella d'Este, first lady of her time; Julius II, hardbitten, bearded warrior Pope; Lucrezia Borgia, who "had four charms, not to mention a slight voluptuous cast in one eye. She was vapid, she was virtuous, she smelled of man, and she did not understand art." For graphic historical writing, Author Roeder's picture of the sack of Rome (1527) will stand with the best of them. And everywhere through the magnificent murk sound the great names, like bells: Borgia, Delia Rovere, Medici, Este. Gonzaga...
...their ambiguous brainstorms and are advocating courses in the appreciation of movies in the public schools. The pupils, it seems, will go to certain selected pictures in company with their teachers. They will then discuss them in class, when particular characters will be pointed out to them as highly virtuous, whereupon they will collectively admire these characters. The result, according to the pedagogues, will be greatly to heighten the taste of the future movie public...