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...NATURAL AND INHERENT RIGHT OF MARRIAGE...WHICH IS TO INCREASE AND MULTIPLY. --Pope Leo XIII Sullivan answers those who argue that marriage is for procreation by saying that same-sex marriage is no different from sterile or elderly heterosexuals' marrying. Why should they have the right to marry and not homosexuals? But social scientist Wilson believes the raising of children remains the central role of marriage because "we have found nothing else that works as well." Besides, both Bennett and Wilson say, Sullivan undermines his own argument that the absence of children should not be an impediment to gay marriages...
Pinsky's attention to the original language of the poem is notably apparent in canto XIII. In his description of the suicides--those condemned for being violent against themselves--Dante fills the canto with the language of negation...
...Neapolitan poet who had taken political asylum at the Paris court of Marie de Medicis, led to introductions in Rome, and he went there in 1624. From then until his death in 1665, Poussin returned to France only once, for a brief two years (1640-42), during which Louis XIII tried to persuade France's top cultural expatriate to stay home. His blandishments failed. Poussin was quite content to accept commissions from royal courtiers -- notably from the Sieur deChantelou, a close and admiring friend to whom most of his surviving letters were addressed -- but he despised the French art world...
Yale, too, will be honoring a distinguished representative of its university tomorrow. After ten years as the Yale mascot, Handsome Dan (a.k.a Dan XIII), a white-and-brown-spotted English bulldog, will be calling it quits...
...scenes are simply smashing; and the requisite grand explosion, where a burning carriage collides with barrels of gunpowder, is highly gratifying. There are even some clever cinematic moments, such as when the camera views the Cardinal through a bullet hole in the forehead of a painting of King Louis XIII. Finally, we must give credit to the effort put into scenery and sets: a great deal of "The Three Musketeers" was filmed on location, so you'll at least enjoy a few darn good views of castles and ruins...