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Expository Form. St. Anne, the mother of Mary, was the patron saint of rhetoricians, and the altarpiece was commissioned from an unknown artist living in Antwerp to commemorate Zoutleeuw's well-off circle of public speakers, grammarians and logic-choppers. Indeed, the unfolding of the events in St. Anne's life as depicted on it (see caption below) has something of the intricate, expository form that was required of formal discourse in those years, while the rhetoricians themselves are shown in conclave at the bottom of the center panel. "This scene," says Dean René Overstyns, "shows...
...today, only the rich can afford to be ill; even the modestly well-off may not be able to bear the financial burden of a long, debilitating illness. The average daily cost of hospitalization has risen from $56 to $144 since 1960, while the nation's total health bill has more than doubled, to $70 billion, or $324 per person, a year. As his prescription for the malaise of the American health-care system, President Nixon last week sent to Congress a package that aims to improve and augment existing programs through private enterprise rather than new forms...
They have a new church building. Money goes to pay that preacher even when many of the church members do not have enough to eat. Black ministers around here are usually quite well-off, in marked contrast to those who contribute each Sunday toward paying their salaries. The church in this county is holding the people back. It is basically a conservative political force. Pray instead of getting out and working in the elections. The church here is an opiate...
Part stereotype, part enigma, blue collar workers are little known to the rest of the nation. To examine what shapes their moods, habits and lifestyles, Correspondent Frank Merrick spent the better part of a week in the fairly well-off working-class community of South Milwaukee, Wis. (pop. 23,286). His report...
...Asked if he thought it would last, Edinburgh Electrician Jack Miller grinned: "How would I know? I only know Harold's made it happen." Heath, who warns of a new onset of inflation that w;ll eat up the higher wages, has been unable to excite the generally well-off electorate with his prophecies of economic doom...