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...earliest meetings of the North Atlantic pact, Paul Henri Spaak provoked a good deal of laughter by rolling an orange along the conference table to soothe an angry and hungry Sir Stafford Cripps. The idea that prompted him has become a tradition in NATO negotiations: on the ability of its members to settle their differences quickly and without rancor depends the happiness and security of the West...
...support last week from a meticulous scholar, Dr. Morton Smith, assistant professor of history at Manhattan's Columbia University and a specialist in ancient religions. Professor Smith read a paper to the Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis describing his discovery of evidence that the author of the earliest Gospel, Mark, also wrote a secret Gospel that was to be shown only to initiates...
...Richard Lippold and Painter Gyorgy Kepes to help. He demands that artists use materials both as contemporary as stainless steel and as old as cathedral glass, to give the church traditional richness and warmth of color. In searching for the most modern solution, he has lately returned to the earliest Christian prototypes: Portsmouth Priory's Church of St. Gregory the Great repeats in its octagonal plan Ravenna's San Vitale, founded by the Emperor Justinian...
Tree into Body. The earliest tablets showed only symbols of the sage: his footprint on a mountainside, the great Bo tree, or the wheel. Gradually, the footprints grew into feet, the tree into a body. The artists never used a human model. Instead, each artist studied existing statues or paintings, and when he had the image firmly in mind, he would produce a work of his own. Though the art of Thailand has in a sense been a perpetual act of copying, the finest artists could not help leaving their personal stamp...
...earliest paintings were for the most part street scenes in which buildings and bridges, walls and traffic overwhelmed the tiny humans that lived in the city. Gradually the human grew bigger and bigger until the figure itself dominated the canvas. Soyer longed to paint portraits in the manner of Thomas Eakins, "completely uningratiating, starkly honest." Degas was another influence, turning Soyer to the natural grace of young women going about some daily task, oblivious to the world...