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During the Middle Ages, the ancient sanctity of salt slid toward superstition. The spilling of salt was considered ominous, a portent of doom. (In Leonardo da Vinci's painting The Last Supper, the scowling Judas is shown with an overturned saltcellar in front of him.) After spilling salt, the spiller had to cast a pinch of it over his left shoulder because the left side was thought to be sinister, a place where evil spirits tended to congregate...
...wholly unassociated amateur counterpart both entail fireman carries, barrel roles, and navy stacks. But collegiate grappling alone has in many ways achieved the stature of true artistry. The Crimson's Tony Bienstock compares wrestling to the paintings of Winslow Homer, while Medalie sees similarities between his sport and Renaissance Leonardo Da Vinci...
...away from Italy a work of art which had been created within the very bosom of the land? What act of piracy were we about to commit? Suddenly I was shaken. But not for very long. Collecting meant taking risks. Collecting meant possession. The pulpit up there is San Leonardo already ahd enough sculptures. A seventh would only cause administrative confusion. By the time I had reached the top of the stairs I had tucked my ridiculous anxieties into the recesses of my mind, never to surface again...
...each generation has to reinvent the past: to construct its own Watteau, even its own Leonardo. The new outlines never quite coincide with the old. This is true of modern art, too, which itself has become old; and it even applies to impressionism, the most accessible, popular modern movement of all. Sometimes later styles "reinterpret" earlier ones, as abstract expressionism fostered the present veneration of the late works of Monet...
...does not convince that computers and world unity can save the world. nor that this goal is wanted. He believes. however, that salvation can be attained and want ended. Fuller's achievements are evidence that a creative spirit can accomplish wonders. The Critical Path is thought-provoking. Fuller, like Leonardo daVinci and sci-fi writers, brings forth ideas: their implementation may not be feasible today, not tomorrow, but the dream is needed before the utopia can be achieved...