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...lens blink first, Ohio's five-term Democratic Governor Frank Lausche turned his massive head and stared squarely into the eye of the Meet the Press camera. Making a rare appearance on national television last week, Lausche's words were just as direct as his gaze...
Wrote Munich's Süddeutsche Zeitung: "Nothing about them suggests the milieu in which they were born ... in the midst of war and destruction Franz Marc's gaze turned inward . . . from crystalline lines he lets the Birth of a Cicada come into being. Animals appear: deer, horses . . . and the feather-light body of a swallow . . . Already far away from presenting the material, the visible, the drawings try to grasp a spiritual reality and make the objects transparent...
...suspected that anything of this sort was happening. Freud behaved much like any other tourist. But in no time he was up against yet another father-figure -Michelangelo's famed statue of Moses in the Church of San Pietro in Vincoli. Freud "used to flinch at the angry gaze as if he were one of the disobedient mob . . . 'But later, Freud promoted himself and identified himself with Moses. Thus he was able, writing in 1914 after the refections of Adler, Stekel and Jung, to put a new psychoanalytic interpretation on the 400-year-old statue...
...Legionnaire at a department convention (but never really forgets the business at hand); he lowers his voice discreetly when he fears his remark may be a little off-color for the ladies present. For the first time in memory, the Politburo has presented a living, breathing character to our gaze and, from what has so far been revealed to us, one could lose him any day anywhere between the Atlantic and Pacific at a businessman's luncheon, a political rally or a baseball game . . . The best way to disarm an American is to make him laugh...
...Campfirology, in which worshipers sit cross-legged in a circle (symbol of eternity) and gaze into the fire (symbol of transitoriness) and sing 'Vive la Compagnie' (symbol of fellowship...