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Palette & Lute. Leonardo was the bastard of a peasant girl and a small-town notary who finally brought the small boy to live with him. For eleven years, however, Leonardo was not much more than another mouth at the notary's table. At 16, he was shipped to Florence and put to the painter's trade with Maestro (Andrea del Verrocchio because he had shown some flair for the palette...
...mood of the conferences was businesslike but relaxed, often livened by dry Churchillian wit. At one point, Churchill's old military adviser, Lord Ismay, trying to break the Anglo-American deadlock over a new standardized rifle, suggested: "Isn't there some bastard Anglo-American type of fitting that could be adapted?" Churchill twinkled: "Oh, Lord Ismay, I must ask you to guard your language. I am an Anglo-American type, you know...
Chesterfield took a dim view of women generally; he felt their proper function was "to suckle fools and chronicle small beer." But in an age of high manners and low morals, it was chic to have a mistress, even more chic to sire a bastard. The earl had both...
...Caracas' Miraflores Palace the bandit morals of the 19th Century caudillos he admired, the manners of the peon he was, the behavior of the bulls he raised. The nation's treasury and the nation's women were his; he liked to share these boons with his bastard brothers and with the 100 or so bastard sons he sired...
...explode in cylinders, in making engines turn faster and faster . . . Genuine inspiration is stifled before it can bear fruit." ¶ Negro sculpture, Negro art, jazz, syncopated rhythm, contorted forms, flattened shapes-all this has become a slogan . . . The so-called renaissance of modern art is nothing more than a bastard arrangement of Negro art. In order to recover their youth, the elite of our civilization, who no longer have anything to say . . . have grasped greedily at the art of these alleged savages." ¶ "Abstract painters have betrayed painting and, after killing it, have shut it up in a cubist coffin...