Word: ancients
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...told ... it expresses the inward idealism of the emancipator in terms of the physical -in the torso emaciated by labor but muscularly overdeveloped by the same toil. The crossed feet seem to grow out of the earth and the strange pose, at once naïve and striking, suggests ancient statues of Christ...
...means of a third gift, a collection of 237 hand-drawn and colored images, red Lamaism, the ancient, unaltered form of Buddism, has for the first time been satisfactorily explained to the Western World. Red Lamaism, which was later followed by the reformed yellow Lamaism, was in its ascendency in the fourteenth century...
...fourth gift dating from the eighteenth century is a manuscript roll from Tun Huang, a province of Kansu, China, which bears a Chinese Buddhist text on the obverse and rough draughts of state documents in ancient Tibetan and in the Iranian language of Khotan on the reverse side...
Papa Benito bounced in turn upon a large white horse. Prancing and bouncing, and cheered by loud Fascist "Ala-ala-ala-las!" the Prime Minister and his Big-Eyed Babe rode once around Ancient Rome, out the Appian Way a piece, back...
...spirit or destructively toward decay and dissolution. Thus Western civilization, with its vaulting expression in Gothic cathedrals, Beethoven, da Vinci, Einstein, Manhattan's sun-smitten towers, is either seething onward toward mightier transactions, more luminous cultural & scientific manifestations, or suffering the nervous, senile disintegration which desolated Rome, Egypt, ancient China...