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...would be safely returned. I never imagined that a mother could be so cruel as to murder her own children. Problems at home with a spouse, finances, job-related difficulties -- nothing gave her the right to take the lives of two innocent children. Why did she do such a tragic thing...
...PHYSICIANS WHO DELIVERED both of Susan and David Smith's children and as residents of Spartanburg, we followed this story with interest. Ultimately we were all saddened and shocked by the tragic outcome. We would like to point out, however, that your statement that Susan Smith "still owed money to the doctor who delivered Alex 14 months ago" is inaccurate. The Smiths' medical bills in our office have always been paid in a timely fashion. Susan and David Smith currently do not owe us one penny...
Poussin wanted to reconstitute antiquity in his paintings by grasping its root: energy. Always in his best work there are the signs of overflowing vitality, constrained by form's superego, the mode -- tragic, idyllic, epic, sacred. The Destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem, 1638, is such a painting. % Poussin based it on a classical source -- Flavius Josephus' account of the sack of Jerusalem by the Emperor Titus and his army. Its obvious formal prototype is the Roman battle sarcophagus, with figures arrayed in a frieze; its pictorial roots, expressed in the nobly articulated figures of enslaved Jews and conquering centurions...
...Excluding the three presidential assassinations, the tragic Lindbergh kidnap-murder, and probably, but not certainly, the Sacco-Vanzetti case, few, if any, American crime stories so completely engrossed the public press, so totally grasped the attention of the American people as did the trial...of Harvard Professor John White Webster at the halfway mark of the 19th century," Sullivan wrote...
...crown jewel of the show, though, is a Van Gogh called The Thicket done shortly before he took his own life. Although the catalogue emphasizes the painting's lack of "tragic import," there is a sense of tragedy in the painting if one views the forest as the paradise which evaded Van Gogh during his life. The catalog also states that there is no entry into this forest scene, but under close observation a path can be detected between two trees. The two trees seem to beckon to the viewer, conveying the idea that within the most destitute mind lies...