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...Neanderthalers had no art. The first artists were the Cro-Magnon men, whose earliest culture-period is called the Aurignacian. The newfound cave at Montignac represents this glimmering dawn-culture on the vastest scale yet found. Its significance, says U.S. Prehistorian George Grant MacCurdy, is that the appearance of art "marks a distinct epoch in mental evolution." The Abbe Breuil calls the Montignac cave "the Sistine Chapel of Aurignacian...
Technique. The earliest cave pictures were not painted but scratched on walls with sharpened flints. Profiles were absolute with but single fore and hind legs, and lacking were such details as hooves, eyes, hair and nostrils. But as Aurignacian scratching developed into painting, remarkable sophistication of draftsmanship appeared. In the Montignac group, stiffness of profile has relaxed and action abounds - the beasts run, leap, browse, swim, lie down, chew their cuds. The head of an ancient long-horned cow (see cut) displays an excellent eye and nostril, subtle shading and dappling. To the Paleolithic artist, the more realistic...
...true child of Hollywood. Among her earliest memories are toddling as a tat after her father as he directed movie scenes. She was not, however, a child star in the Temple sense, and so had as normal a childhood as it is possible to have in Hollywood. Her juvenile film appearances were limited to a few baby shots and a scene in "Peck's Bad Boy" with Jackie Coogan, in which he stole her ice cream cone...
...carry on this debate--a debate designed to make live the democracy of which you so often speak. We would appreciate a reply by Wednesday or Thursday of this week so that we can make arrangements with Mr. Witt, and would be glad to see you at your earliest convenience to complete arrangements. Very truly yours, Executive Committee Harvard Student Union. David Bennett, President...
...Australians, New Zealanders and Britons dug themselves in on the heights above the pass's little mill and aqueduct, near its hot springs, and poured down fire so that the Germans could neither scale the heights nor move along the narrow strip of shore. One of the earliest fifth columnists, a Greek from Malis, betrayed the Spartans by leading the Persians through a mountain path around to the rear of the Greeks. Last week the Germans finally took Thermopylae by the same operation, but, like the pass, on a much wider scale, a swing far to the west...