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...previous emperors. The wholesale destruction had an ironically tonic effect. The Chinese had, as they were always prone to do, fallen victim of their own achievements, and art had become mere imitation of the past. Now, suddenly, much of the past was gone, and the artists could begin anew...
...Italy's redshirt army of liberation in the 1860s, a career she has elaborated into her own self-nourishing legend that she was the schoolgirl who inspired Garibaldi's march on Rome. Phony or not. she sends the soldier whistling away into the morning sunshine surprised anew by the richness of life...
...dramatize a question posed by the 19th century Polish poet Norwid: Will the ashes from the flames of war "hold the glory of a starlike diamond"? As such, it becomes a sort of Poland Man Amour, in which love, out of the cinders of World War II, is kindled anew, flickers with the fire of diamonds, burns out finally in a coda of death...
...beside blurbissimo writing. This is Michelangelo painting the figures of the Sistine Chapel ceiling: "Each one had to be pushed out of his artistic womb, pushed out by his own inarticulate frenzied force. He must gather within himself his galvanic might; his burgeoning seed must be generated each day anew within his vitals, hurtled into space, projected onto the ceiling, given life everlasting. Though he was creating God the Father, he himself was God the Mother ... on his lonely truckle bed high in the heavens, going through parturition to deliver a race of immortals." Out of tons of this quarried...
What set the M.P.s off anew was a 567-page government report on India's protracted negotiations with the Chinese. The report exhaustively proved India's historic title to the disputed chunk of mountainous Kashmir borderlands, as even the Indian Communist Party was forced to concede. But Peking's only answer was a new map of the area-claiming 2,000 more square miles...