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...situation, successfully conveys the more human and personal side of His sacrifice. (Here we find the influence of the Italian Renaissance.) Van der Weyden directs his appeal to the individual as a whole rather than to the religious element within the individual. Christ has become less of a far-distant object of veneration and more of an immediate source of sympathy and feeling. The person who looks at Van der Weyden's "Pieta" is apt to feel moved from within rather than drawn from above. A feeling of Gothicism is no longer present...
...Powers Hotel, where his candidacy was formally announced. "I ask by means of this letter to be counted in," wrote upstate New York's potent Congressman James W. Wadsworth (see p. 18), whom Publisher Gannett helped turn out of the U. S. Senate in 1926. An interested if distant observer in Washington was Frank Gannett's friend William Edgar Borah of Idaho. Distinctly cool was Herbert Hoover in Manhattan. Coldly observant near by were most New York Republican politicos. They gave Frank Gannett small chance, nevertheless foresaw that by splitting the State delegation he could gravely harm...
...family name was originally Sandow. Dr. Charles is a distant relative of Eugene Sandow, famed oldtime strongman...
Secretary Dearborn it was who ordered the building of a fort to protect the distant trading post of "Chikago," gave it his name. From Fort Dearborn marched an unfortunate garrison in 1812, to be annihilated by the Indians on Lake Michigan's sand dunes. Closest Dearborn ever got to the site was probably during the unsuccessful campaign he himself conducted against the British in the same year around the Niagara River in New York...
...program will include "Diferencias sobre el Canto del Caballero," written by Antonio de Cabezon in the 16th century; three sonatas by Padre Antonio Soler; three selections from the suite "Iberia," by Isaac Albeniz; and the modern "Distant Saraband" by Joaquin Rodriguo...