Word: magnons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bare of treasures-which is what boys naturally expect to find in caves-but the walls, in the eye of their flashlight, swarmed with strange painted beasts. Some 20,000 years old, the pictures were almost perfectly preserved. They had found mankind's oldest shrine, painted by Cro-Magnon...
...Chartres Cathedral. A feeling of religious awe pervades the place. But anthropologists incline to believe that it was used not as a center of worship but of mere hunting magic. The so-called "realism" of the pictures baffles scholars, because thousands of years later, the Cro-Magnon's successors drew only crude symbolic pictographs. One possible explanation: the paintings are not deliberate copies of the animals but swift tracings of visions such as children see in a flickering fire. Painted by firelight, often one atop another, they have the look of fire shadows. Conceivably the Cro-Magnon artists painted...
They must, like Adam, have felt the animals to be brothers, for the Cro-Magnon's animal paintings display a range of feeling such as civilized men attribute only to civilized men. To the Cro-Magnons the animals they hunted were fellow spirits, not just flesh...
...French press hopefully referred to it as "La jeune fille de Pataud." It was confirmed recently by Professor H. V. Vallois, Director of the Musee de 1'Homme in Paris and co-director of the expedition, that the skull is of a 15 to 18 year old Cro-Magnon girl...
Goldilocks, a musical visit to the Cro-Magnon days of moviemaking, was singing just a bit off key in Philadelphia, and its authors, Critic Walter Kerr and his wife Jean (Please Don't Eat the Daisies), were working overtime to tune it up. At the Grand, the musical version of Vicki Baum's Grand Hotel that is scheduled to take Paul Muni back to his beginnings as a vaudeville hoofer, is laid up in California while its producers try to produce a new book. Other shows were more nearly ready to kiss the road goodbye...