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...works ad majorem Dei gloriam. But it was really for the greater glory of man that they recreated the heavens and the earth in their paintings, molded the fiercest and the softest forms as if marble had become wax, and folded the world into their ledgers. For, as Will Durant said of the Renaissance, "first of all it took money, smelly bourgeois money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: LINCOLN AND MODERN AMERICA | 5/10/1963 | See Source »

...Hazel Brannan Smith, who runs a small weekly in Durant, Miss.? She knows what it means to attack a corrupt political machine, to have her shop bombed, to be shot at-to print the truth when a law man shot a Negro in the back at close range and then used the old alibi "he was trying to escape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 11, 1963 | 1/11/1963 | See Source »

...mile invitational relay should also materialize after the meet. A team consisting of former Crimson track star Don Kirkland, his brother John, Yale's Jim Stack, and Charles Durant will run against the present record-holding Harvard team...

Author: By Richard Cotton, | Title: TRACK TEAM FAVORED OVER WEAK B.U. SQUAD | 12/18/1962 | See Source »

WILL AND ARIEL DURANT Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 23, 1962 | 3/23/1962 | See Source »

...Assembly, O'Hara is at his best in "The Cellar Domain," a portrait of the tight, status-conscious little world of Peter Durant's barber shop, and the tale of its destruction. Durant, the head barber, runs his miniature community with a social-register sense of propriety. Certain customers get preference over others, and some are told, when they begin to realize they are being ignored, "Better go down the street. You got a good barber down towards the rail-road station." Those who finally make the inner circle are fitted for the symbol of acceptance--a $2 beer...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: O'Hara's Aimless Stories | 3/23/1962 | See Source »

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