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...splashes and splotches, drippings and oily rag montages of contemporary art are commonly explained by their producers as deep self-expression of their innermost being--a goal they gain largely from the works of Vincent van Gogh. But self-expression has sadly declined since the 1880's and van Gogh...
...Senator Truman knew what he was talking about. In the inner circle that rules the Senate, Styles Bridges was the innermost man, the dean of Senate Republicans, and one of the savviest politicians in the upper chamber. He was a poor speaker, and his name was never attached to any historic item of legislation. Yet last week, when Bridges died of complications following a heart attack, the Senate lost one of its most influential members...
...second trend--frequently embraced by the same artists--proceeds from another Bauhaus principle expressed by Gropius in 1923. "We perceive every form," he wrote, "as the embodiment of an idea, every piece of work as a manifestation of our innermost selves. Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning." The most familiar examples of this concept are Paul Klee's fantasies but, Feininger and, especially, Wassily Kandinsky submit to the same influence...
...women, the Rio carnival is a rare escape from the censorious control normally exercised by fathers, husbands and fiancés. Peeling off some of their clothes and more of their inhibitions, perfectly respectable Brazilian wives and mothers become during the Rio carnival the houris of their innermost dreams...
...things suitable to progress toward knowledge." Even in this "secret Gospel" Mark left out "the things which are not to be uttered." He did not set down "the hierophantic [i.e., priestly esoteric] teaching of the Lord" but used sayings and doings that "would lead the hearers into the innermost sanctuary of that truth which is hidden behind seven veils." One of these, apparently, is the miracle of the raising of Lazarus, which does not appear in the Biblical Gospel of Mark but only in the Gospel of John. According to Clement, Mark left his secret Gospel to the church...