Word: concept
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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CURIOS: Dr. Vagts, a member of the Princeton faculty, said that he saw a connection between the balance of power concept in world politics and the part in the center of the Saviour's hair in da Vinci's painting, "The Last Supper." He said that the part is the center from which the picture's symmetry was laid out and from this the left side is seen to balance the right. This feeling for balance and symmetry, he added, was also reflected in the manner in which groups of nations were weighed against one another and the way that...