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Home: Core Subjects: Arts and Literature: LINKS_PAGE Core Subjects: Arts and Literature: LINKS_PAGEArticles:Tolkien and Rowling: Common Ground? - Michael O'Brien/Sandra MieselMichael O’Brien’s sweeping and popular critique of the Harry Potter books is criticized in a letter to Catholic World Report by Sandra Miesel of Indianapolis. O’Brien’s response follows. Read more... Tongue-twister Shakespeare - Seth LererA new book traces the origins of English—from the Anglo-Saxons to Eminem. In the excerpt below, the author explains how Shakespeare stretched English to its outer limits. Read more... Toward the First Great Renaissance Carolingian and Romanesque Church Architecture - Michael RoseCharlemagne, King of the Franks, regarded the restoration of the West as both a spiritual and a political duty. He set about to revive the traditions of ancient Rome in light of the universal call to recognize Christ as the center of the new emerging culture. This, the beginning of the first great Renaissance in Christendom, found expression in architecture. Read more... Transport: Seeing With a Myriad of Eyes - William Kilpatrick, Gregory Wolfe, and Suzanne M. WolfeLike travel books broaden the mind. They give us a bigger picture of the world and its inhabitants. One result is that we become better judges of character. By meeting certain character types in stories we are better prepared for the day when we will meet that type in person. Read more... Trust Your Feelings…Darth? - Terry MattinglyNo wonder Anakin Skywalker seems so confused. Every time the Jedi apprentice turns around, a spiritual master tells him to trust his feelings, search his feelings or follow his feelings. Trouble is, the young super-warrior in Star Wars: Attack of the Clones is a tornado of feelings. He feels love. He feels hate, ambition, desire, frustration, fear and fury. Read more... Turning visitors into pilgrims - Father Raymond J. de SouzaThe new Saint Peter’s Basilica is 500 years old this year — or more specifically, it is five centuries since the cornerstone was laid. Read more... Tzaddiks, Fathers, and Sons - George WeigelOn a recent day off occasioned by some evil thing fastening upon me and laying me temporarily low, I re-read Chaim Potok's two wonderful novels, The Chosen and The Promise, the pleasures of which happily compensated for my indisposition. Read more... Uncle Tom's Victory - Phillip E. JohnsonToday, hardly anybody reads "Uncle Tom’s Cabin", probably because the book has picked up a reputation as a cliché-ridden anti-slavery potboiler rather than as the moving story of faith and courage it truly is. Another reason for the neglect of "Uncle Tom’s Cabin" is that it is written with a profoundly Christian sensibility. Read more... Under the Radar - Ben WattenbergNew. Newer. Newest. Shocking, More Shocking, Most Shocking. Shocking-est. Abstract. Super-abstract. If you went by the headlines, you'd think that this is all there is to contemporary art. But it's not. We'll show you another side of today's art scene in our Think Tank Special, "Art Under the Radar". Read more... Velázquez: the high, the devastating price of snobbery - Paul JohnsonThe Velázquez show at the National Gallery has reminded me that art history is not only about what was, and what is, but what might have been. Read more... Pages: [<<] ... 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 [>>] Related Categories:Pages Updated On: 19-Dec-2008 - 11:42:20
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