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...cycles. He dreamed of making a "total" work of art subsuming architecture, painting and sculpture -- hence the "Studio of the South Seas" that he set up in rue Vercingetorix in Paris after he got back from his first Pacific sojourn in 1893, and the "House of Pleasure," with its lewd carvings and mottoes, that he built in the Marquesas. Tahitian myth was as literal a gift from the gods to him as Valhalla had been to Wagner. Gauguin was no anthropologist but a romantic looking for pity and terror among the vestiges of a lost Golden Age. Certainly his flight...
...Dominican zealot Girolamo Savonarola who presided over the Bonfire of the Vanities during Carnival in Florence in 1497. Thousands of the Florentine children who were Savonarola's followers went through the city collecting what they deemed to be lewd books, as well as pictures, lutes, playing cards, mirrors and other vanities, and piled them in the great Piazza della Signoria of Florence. The pyramid of offending objects rose 60 feet high, and went up in flames. One year later Savonarola had a political quarrel with Pope Alexander VI, was excommunicated, tried and hanged. His body was burned at the stake...
...your activities in Florida should be getting one of your hearty compatriots intoxicated to the point of complete helplessness while on the beach, and then covering his or her face and chest with various lewd witticisms in sunblock. Party games like this coupled with the requisite amount of beer-guzzling and sun-worshipping, and you will have a dream vacation which will only cost your self respect, $300, and five-eighths of your functional grey matter...
...Lynah's lewd, rude, and crude bunch of students will do anything to rattle an opposing netminder. Chant the goalie's name, label him a sieve (along with other spacious structures) and throw objects that would repulse many...
...desire to ruin tradition or spoil anyone's fun. But President Schmidt has expressed to me his fears that the recent turbulence over the Supreme Court is not only wreaking havoc on the stock market and consequently the endowment, but is also scaring away alumni donators in droves. Further lewd conduct, we fear, will only discourage even more donations. Let's make a good impression on Harvard and our old timers. Keep your clothes on for a change, Saybrook. The Yale Police Department November...