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This is the thesis of Jesuit William Lynch, literary critic and assistant professor of English at Georgetown University, and one of the most incisive Catholic intellectuals in the U.S., as he expounds it in a new book, Christ and Apollo (Sheed & Ward1; $5). Manichaeans are every where, says Lynch, particularly in the arts. His case against them: instead of looking directly upward for insight into the in finite, the true way up is the way down -into the finite facts of life. The literary imagination, striving to ascend to free dom, must descend into things, and the model...
Lynch contrasts Christ and Apollo. Apollo symbolizes the dream, "a kind of autonomous and facile intellectualism that thinks form can be given to the world by the top of the head alone, without contact with the world, without contact with the rest of the self...
Dandyism flourished, exquisite and exclusive, until the passage of the Reform Bill in 1832 (which shifted the balance of power from the Lords to the Commons). Such men as "Poodle" Byng, ''Apollo" Raikes, and the gorgeous Count D'Orsay followed or improved upon Brummell's styles; collars, stiff with whalebone, rose above the ears, cravats required pounds of starch, and coats became bosomy with padding. French aristocrats, in a wave of Anglophilia, embraced the fad-although, the author notes, they confused the thin-wristed dandy with his county cousin, the fox-hunting buck...
...suits don't look well on ordinary Russians," conceded Vasily Popkov, chief of the garment industry's Central Clothing Institute, "because they are tailored for Apollo. Our designers conceive of the customer in just two dimensions-height and chest width-and assume that for their other measurements all their customers will be proportioned exactly as Apollo." But far from being Apollos, Russians tend to be short and broad, and if anything getting broader. Moscow University's anthropology department, said Popkov, has just finished a survey which shows that only 43% of all Soviet citizens could...
...With the Apollo lay two lesser but still important finds: a bronze Muse from the era of Praxiteles and a fifth century marble column with the head of Hermes. Archaeologists speculate that an exporter may have warehoused the statues for shipment to Imperial Rome some time during the Augustan Age. and then lost track of them. At week's end four new finds were reported, including a bronze shield covered with bas-reliefs. Feverish digging continued. The street may yield more still...