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Into Carolingian manuscripts crept the idea of narrative illustration rather than static devotional icons, the better to teach the word of God. The famous Utrecht Psalter abandoned elaborate gilding to accompany the Gospels with cursive, pen-and-ink cartooning. By the time the Carolingian Renaissance subsided in the late 10th century, art was no longer the same as religion, only its handmaiden. As the Libri Carolini put it in the late 8th century: "The sacrament is nourishment for the soul. Pictures are food only for the eyes." So the Carolingian renaissance opened the way for the later, greater Renaissance...
Barely perceptibly, women's under wear began a year ago to melt into skin air. Girdles crept up the leg, and bras got briefer. The body stocking came along, and the traditional white and pink colors were superseded by a flesh color that matched the owner's own. Short of eliminating itself entirely, the industry seemed to have nowhere left...
...Shortly thereafter, the United States Golf Association ruled that Calcuttas were strictly out of bounds, and most clubs stowed their auction hammers away in old closets. But for golfers who liked to gamble, playing in tournaments without a purse was as dreary as dancing without music So betting slowly crept back to the links, and today members in hundreds of clubs across the country are watching fellow golfers practice putts with more than a casual interest. Many clubs are playing it safe, allowing only modest parimutuel bets; others have returned to the auctions of old, only slightly toned down. Wary...
Chagall learned some of the discipline of the cubists. But he resisted their dissection of form. "Let them eat their fill of their square peas on their triangular tables!" he wrote. Nevertheless, something of Cartesian logic crept into his fantasies; his pictures took on orderly geometry; his images lost traditional figure-ground relationships and, instead, flattened against the picture plane in search of purely visual values. Said Chagall: "For me, a painting is a surface covered with representations of things- objects, animals, human beings- in a certain order in which logic and illustration have no importance...
...Negro leaders feel that ministry officials have shown little interest in working with the community toward their common goals. This spring, the ministry derided a pledge, signed by a number of white and Negro civic leaders, to provide equal job opportunities. A note of class-struggle belligerency has crept into the ministry's words as the strike has spread. Baptist Minister Laurice Walker, a staff member of the project, whips up plantation workers by denouncing "the man in the big white house taking food out of your wife's and your children's mouths and the clothes...