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...blind worshipper of all things Greek. The balance and independence of the statement, "our color-sense had been more educated than that of the Greeks, though our sensitiveness to proportion is perhaps less acute" is a comfort in an age when all men either worship or else utterly contemn all things Greek. And it is a real joy to hear, in this hurried age, so safe and exposition of the doctrine of leisure...

Author: By O. Laf., | Title: WRITES ON CULTURE OF 'CLASSICAL GREECE | 11/24/1923 | See Source »

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