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...Want to Flourish." Outwardly, Gwen John was as reticent as her painting. Inwardly, her life was one of intense feeling, rebellion and search. She was a spinster who became the mistress of Sculptor Auguste Rodin, an agnostic who turned to the Roman Catholic Church. In his new book, Modern English Painters, published last week, Sir John Rothenstein devotes a chapter to Gwen John, tells much of her story for the first time...
...they had a life of their own. But lice have been bird parasites as long as birds have been birds. They probably sucked the blood of reptiles from which birds developed. When reptiles' scales turned into birds' feathers, the lice learned to graze and flourish on the new crop...
...black alike, chopping their victims with axes and leaving the bodies to be carried away by the night soil removers. In the Rand goldfields, police estimate, there are three murders every two days; in the concrete "locations" where the black miners live, separated from their families, prostitution and sodomy flourish...
...seeing them . . ." In Halifax, Vice-Admiralty Justice Sir Alexander Croke made Philadelphia a gentlemanly, periwigged bow. "Heaven forbid," he said, "that such an application to the generosity of Great Britain should ever be ineffectual." After a learned recital of the laws of war, Sir Alexander concluded with a full flourish: "With real sensations of pleasure . . . I decree the restitution of the property . . ." Halifax sent the paintings to Philadelphia by truce ship...
...college presidents had succeeded in drawing up a code to enforce amateurism, they would have "passed a miracle." It is as difficult to legislate honesty as it is to legislate fredom, and the best that regulations can do is to create a situation where the temptations to honesty will flourish and the temptations to dishonesty will wither. If coaches are put more in the position of professors and judged more on their teaching ability than on "the results," if post-season games and tournaments are cut out, and if sports are relegated in every way possible to the status...