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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...decline was quite similar to our world today," he insists. "There was the same fury of enjoying life, the same lack of moral principles and ideologies, and the same complacency. Today we are finished with the Christian myth and await a new one. There is analogy in Satyr-icon." But history, unlike jurisprudence, is not always based on precedent. It is, in Valéry's term, "the science of what never happens twice...
...their details than the "artistic" landscapes of contemporary Europe. Portraits, though anatomically uncertain, are often livelier and more shrewdly observed than the conventional dollfaces of many well-trained Europeans. T. Skynner, in his Portrait of a Woman, could not quite manage the hands, but makes a kind of hieratic icon out of the worn dignity of a simple New England lady...
Last week, the collection of reading fare included the Autobiography of Alice B. Tolkas, the Ethics of Sex, the Village Voice, A Man from Kansas, bound volumes of Time (1945), Life (1969) and the Saturday Evening Post (1954), Harpers, Police Chief, and the Icon and the Axe, an interpretive history of Russian Culture...