Word: ancient
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When Rauschenberg won the painting grand prize (long since abolished) at the 1964 Biennale, European critics bitterly complained about American influence in the art world. Today, of course, such transatlantic rivalries are ancient history. They have been canceled by a market system based on multinational trading, where conglomerates of dealers sell their menus of American, Italian, German artists to German, Italian, American clients. There is not one American artist under 50 whose work creates the anxiety among discriminating Europeans that Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns, or their pop successors...
...energetic Pontiff visited the ancient monastery at Einsiedeln, spoke in four languages and exhorted Swiss bankers to bring lofty principles to the world of high finance. Editorialized the Swiss opinion weekly L'Hebdo: "The Protestants may be a little jealous of Rome's marketing prowess...
...morals of sacrifice, so clear then, are more confusing now." This statement reminds me how we have advanced in the technology of annihilation. Engaging in battles, once thought glorious, is now considered an obscenity. I am reminded of the words of an old hymn, "Time makes ancient good uncouth...
...debated among the ancient Greeks, until philosophers like Democritus and Plato concluded correctly that the pain-perception center is the brain. Greek scientists found support for this theory by discovering that the brain is connected to a network of two types of nerve fibers, one set controlling motion, the other, sensation. This knowledge was lost in the Middle Ages, and superstition again took hold. Only when taboos against dissection were lifted during the Renaissance did thinkers like Leonardo da Vinci once again understand pain in terms of the nervous system...
Mortification, an ancient Catholic tradition, was well known in Spam when Opus Dei was born. It was in Madrid, on Oct. 2, 1928, that Hospital Chaplain Escrivá received an instantaneous vision of the Opus Dei concept as church bells began to ring. Escrivá's idea, a reaction to the priest-dominated Spanish church, was to encourage the laity to play an important role in the church. "God led me by the hand," he said later. "Quietly, little by little, until his castle was built." Escrivá moved his headquarters to Rome in 1946 to make the movement...