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...first Lovis Corinth did not look as if he would be one of them. He went to study art in Paris when impression ism was already a decade old. Rather than join this movement, Corinth be came a star pupil of the arch-academic Nudesmith William Bouguereau...
Senator Goldwater's candidacy in itself has produced several rather unique situations. Certainly it is the first time in a goodly number of years such an arch conservative has captured a party's presidential nomination and also taken over the party machinery itself. Goldwater is, peculiarly, threatening to break up the Solid South for the first time in a hundred years against the first Southern president in the same period of time...
Senator Goldwater's candidacy in itself has produced several rather unique situations. Certainly it is the first time in a goodly number of years such an arch conservative has captured a party's presidential nomination and also taken over the party machinery itself. Goldwater is, peculiarly, threatening to break up the Solid South for the first time in a hundred years against the first Southern president in the same period of time...
...nature of the barriers that man seeks to cross makes them some of the loveliest spots on the globe-gorges, bays, broad rivers, mountain valleys, the approaches to towering cities. By necessity, bridges are the purest sort of expression of the architectural concept of form following function. A steel-arch bridge over a deep canyon cannot help completing the frame of a picture of classic beauty: rushing waters below, soaring steel above, and all framing the natural art of rock shaped by wind and water...
...scrolls faithfully capture the Americans in every conceivable pursuit: tippling, hunting, surveying Shimoda harbor, laundering their clothes at the beach. They also suggest that U.S. sailors have not changed very much. One picture depicts a tipsy seaman dallying in an inn with five tarts, and the dialogue is suitably arch: "Oh, come a little closer to me!" "I say, I say, it seems you've had too much and can't stand up!" Japanese casualness about sex convinced Perry that they were "a lewd people." When the shogun's commissioners complained that a U.S. naval officer...