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...Jane's matchless eyes, latter-day readers can also watch such scenes as Dickens marvelously playing the role of conjurer at a children's party, or Tennyson taking Jane's hand and "forgetting to let it go again," while murmuring in the trancelike voice of a lotus-eater: "I know that I know you, but I cannot tell your name...
...European king and his mistress (not Carol and Magda, the author hastens to say) are passing their exile in Mexico City, eating high on the lotus as they await admission to the U.S. With them are the king's chamberlain, a villain as cold as a Danube carp, and a sadistic international financier, who keeps thin, boned whips in his bureau drawer...
Miss St. Denis' art seems to me a secondary one. She is probably without equal in this country in her hand-and-arm technique--it seems like a form of withcraft the way she can make her arms turn into writhing cobras, or her hands become slowly-opening lotus blossoms--and it is no less fascinating to see her make a piece of fabric tell a story. But all of these things seem to belong to the decorative arts, not to the creative. However, every dancer, indeed every interpretative artist, could still learn much from her, as many...
...document his theory, Dr. Ekholm exhibits a stone bas-relief from India's Amaravati period (about 200 A.D.). At the ends are beasts with fishlike bodies. Out of their mouths sprout lotus flowers, and lotus stems wind sinuously through the carvings...
...relief from the Mayan temple at Chichen Itza, Yucatan, shows similar figures, distorted but still recognizable.. In the Mayan version, the fish-beasts have turned into fish, but conventionalized lotus flowers sprout from their mouths and clumsy lotus stems wind grotesquely. Since the lotus is the symbol of Buddhism, Dr. Ekholm believes that the lotus design may have been brought to Yucatan by a Buddhist missionary. He shows a carving from India of the Buddha seated in a lotus flower. Beside it he shows another stylized lotus flower from Yucatan. In the center, instead of the placid Buddha...