Word: antaeus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Like Antaeus, whose mother was Earth, each President goes back to the land and the people for his strength and the renewal of his spirit. President Johnson, like every President before him, sought this renewal and found it [during the 1964 campaign] in the outpouring of love and affection, in the outstretched arms of mothers holding up their babies to see the President, in the tears and the laughter of the people...
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...character Mr. Humphrey should have referred to is Antaeus, a giant who was held in the air by Hercules and thus slain when he was unable to touch the ground and regain his strength...
Hypnotic God. One of Donatello's greatest successors was Antonio del Pollajuolo, whom Lorenzo de Medici called "the principal master" of Florence. His writhing Hercules and Antaeus, the only surviving statuette, positively known to be his, almost cries out in agony. Wild Man on Horseback, by Bertoldo di Giovanni, a pupil of Donatello, rides with savage majesty upon a steed of extraordinary elegance. Though less renowned, Alessandro Vittoria left in his 19½-in.-high Neptune a figure of hypnotic power. There is no doubt that this small god could quell a storm with his anger...