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Another Berenson-directed investment, and this time one that would pay off as one of the greatest Italian paintings the world would ever see, was Titian's Rape of Europa. Few paintings have served as such imaginative inspiration to other artists; it is known that Rubens and Sir Joshua Reynolds had copies from the original in Venice; this painting also influenced Van Dyck and Rembrandt, as well as the Spanish school (e. g. Velazquez). The picture is of a white bull carrying away the swirlingscafed Europa on his back; blue vs. red is the dominant color scheme typical of Titian...
...people who charge the U.S. with "war crimes" use the term loosely, U.S. practices in South Viet Nam are suspect. Moreover, there are troubling legal precedents set by the Tokyo trial of Japanese leaders after World War II. One defendant was Koki Hirota, Foreign Minister during Japan's 1937 "rape" of Nanking. Though Hirota had protested the atrocities, the Tokyo tribunal found him guilty of not "insisting before the Cabinet" that they be halted immediately. Hirota received a death sentence and was executed. Where does this leave U.S. Cabinet officers...
...campaign to reform abortion laws in the U.S. has made the justifications for abortion well known. There are the dramatic cases: pregnancies through rape or incest, the potentially deformed child, the mother whose mental health is seriously endangered. The Women's Liberation movement has made the confrontation total by declaring the absolute right of women over their own bodies. To them and to others, the right of abortion is simply the right to assert an order of values: their own lives and well-being over the lives of the unborn...
...contemporary exposition of the traditional Roman Catholic stand against all abortions. Grisez concedes only that the law need not forbid abortion in the classic case of saving a mother's life (even the strictest U.S. laws have generally allowed that exception) and possibly in a pregnancy due to rape. Where liberalization is inevitable, he suggests that legislators work to hedge it with restrictive amendments...
Another of Noonan's contributors, German Redemptorist Father Bernard Haring, a moral theologian at Rome's Accademia Alfonsiana, urges Catholics to avoid squabbling with others over such "hard cases" as the victim of rape or the endangered mother and concentrate on the "large areas of agreement" they share with less dogmatic foes of abortion. Many who would permit abortion in exceptional cases would agree, for instance, on the immorality of abortion for mere convenience...