Word: linearities
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Greek ships brought back good ideas from every Mediterranean port. The idea of the Griffon (600 B.C., see cut) came from Asia Minor. Egypt contributed to the cold, finely modeled formalism of Youth from Andros. But the linear energy of The Cottenham Relief, a horse and horseman, was closer to real life than anything the Egyptians produced (see cuts). To the Greeks, gods were fairly human, and human strength and grace were godly characteristics. At the roots their religion remained anthropocentric-man was the center of the universe and the measure of all things...
...compass the thought of mankind as possessing relevance to the eternal spheres, it has become clearly evident to me that the Earthman was choiring his way. . . . The prisms of chance do not allow too great an opportunity for merit or renown; they revoke the essential, and persuade mankind into linear aspects such as the ulterior powers descry for illusive dedications."). More surprising is a second foreword by William Ewart Gladstone, disembodied but still magisterial in the beyond...
...drawings, made during the Nazi occupation of France, were simple, linear statements of the things Matisse likes most to see-flowers, faces and figures. He believes art should be a "mental soother . . . devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter. ... It is through [the human figure] that I best succeed in expressing the nearly religious feeling that I have towards life. ... I do not care to repeat [details] with anatomical exactness." The pictures look as though Matisse had been looking at the model, not the paper, and acting out what he saw with fine, free-swinging gestures of his right hand...
...hours a problem that took four operators three weeks on ordinary office calculators. Given guinea-pig birth and mortality rates, for example, it is capable of computing how many living progeny a pair of guinea pigs would have by St. Patrick's Day, 1968. It solves simultaneous linear algebraic equations, analyzes statistics, stores up the answers to difficult computations for future use in similar problems-and gets answers accurate to 23 places. When the machine makes an error, it automatically stops. Commander Aiken says it has already exposed eleven miscalculations in a certain formula that has been standard...
...cartoonist creator of the "Kewpie Doll"; in Springfield, Mo. Exquisitely beautiful daughter of an Irish ne'er-do-well who later retired to a Missouri chasm, the onetime Omaha convent girl became a newspaper cartoonist at 13, in later years attempted serious painting and sculpture, never really learned linear perspective. She copyrighted her epicene homunculus in 1909, after first seeing its teardrop-headed form in a dream. Pirated the world over, the "Kewpie Doll" sold more than 5,000,000 copies, brought its twice-married parent more than...