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Tasso's epic poem, Jerusalem Delivered, was Van Dyck's inspiration for the painting. Armida, a lovely sorceress, tempts Knight Rinaldo from his crusade against the infidel in Jerusalem. The canvas shows Rinaldo, with half his armor off, lolling sublimely in the caresses of Armida and her sprites. Van Dyck painted it expressly for Charles I in 1629 and 1630. It has been in England ever since, until Knoedler & Co. recently bought it, shipped it to Manhattan. Jacob Epstein first saw it in Knoedler's London galleries...
Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill is an individualist of such reckless stamp that only chance kept him from the gallows until he attained the armor of prestige and power. A minor exploit of his youth was to "shinny" up the central pillar in a London music hall, wearing the uniform of his Queen (Victoria) and demand three cheers for every daughter of joy in the house. Theirs were, he shouted, the only bosoms on which the tired head of a British soldier could always find repose. By a miracle he was not cashiered?rose to hold the purse strings...
...said his life was enchanted. Nor ivory knife nor silver slug could pierce the Swarthy armor of his skin. His chest was as hairy as the pelt of a bear. His teeth were sharp as stakes. He taught his soldiery to play a game-first you took a village, then you lined up women, tore the babies from their breasts, tossed them in air, impaled them on spear points. Some say that a British propagandist, not Osman Digna, invented this game, but Colonel Horatio Kitchener (young then) took it seriously. He went after Fuzzy Wuzzy at Handub but a black...
...soldiers of the Theban Legion and, again and again, St. Francis, friend of birds and lepers, upon whose still and mocking face broods the strange gaiety of holiness. St. Martin, among the holy men, rides on a white horse. He is a strange figure, with his sword and black armor in the company of the saints. He was in life a captain. Born of heathen parents, he turned to Christ and became a catechumen. His parents forced him to give up the thought of serving God and made him enlist in the army of France. One day, quartered at Amiens...
...against an air attack has been fatal to Harvard all season; it was under cover of a barrage of passes that Holy Cross came from behind in the second half to lower the Crimson colors and later Brown showed the ease with which aerial thrusts might pierce the Cambridge armor...