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...world of Texas, where oil millionaires are a breed of cliche, and in the great world of oil commerce beyond...
...evidence shows, too, that realism in art can be the precise opposite of stodginess. True realism rises to the challenges of continual change, visible and invisible. It showed its strength in the guardians at the gates of American painting history. Copley and Benjamin West, who studied a new breed of men with fresh eyes. When West first saw the famed Apollo Belvedere in Rome, he cried out: "My God, how like a Mohawk warrior!" And as John Adams said in describing Copley's immortal gallery of founding fathers: "You can scarcely help discoursing with them, asking questions and receiving...
Traditionally, the Victorians weren't a breed of doubters. They tended to be set in their ways, of moderate ambition, of staid habit. It's not often that we can see what happened to them when they practised excess, and we must be thankful to James Merrill's The Immortal Husband for the instruction. We must also thank him for a highly original and vastly entertaining play...
Chaperoned Breed. When freed of ticks and internal parasites, Wright's eight Xolos throve and multiplied. In cooperation with the Asociación Canofila Mexicana (Mexican Kennel Club), he set up standards for the breed. A genuine Xolo should have no hair except a slight fuzz on the top of the head and the tip of the tail. The naked skin can be any color (dark brown or grey is commonest), but large blotches of pink are undesirable. The ears should stand up straight...
...recognized" only two of Wright's carefully bred puppies. Later generations, carefully chaperoned, have approached the standard more closely. Now there are 22 recognized Xolos, and more on the way. Rules have been set up to keep unrecognized Xolos, even though of ancient Aztec ancestry, from sullying the breed. Buyers of the real McCoy must sign an agreement to destroy all nonstandard pups. No owner may breed his Xolo without consulting Wright's committee...