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...that they were very ugly would also be to lie. They simply were, and we asked no more of them." Warned Fayssat: "We are afflicted in 1961 with the same needs as the old guards of the empire, the musketeers of Louis XIII. the legionnaires of Caesar, and Cro-Magnon man." But the council heartlessly ruled that in the age of indoor plumbing, the vespasienne was outmoded. By 1963. the last one would be razed...
...these disgraces to Cro-Magnon man was stabled at the Gotham Hotel. "This canvas inspector finished several breakfasts one Sunday morning," Fowler tells in one of the book's funnier anecdotes, "and was trying to read the comic pages of the American. He had just about mastered the spelling of the hard word 'Wow!' in a Barney Google episode when the bells of nearby St. Patrick's began to ring...
...cases: Sarah Goldsmith, a mother of two who is cheating on a tabby-cat husband with a tomcat theater director; Naomi Shields, an alcoholic nymphomaniac who accommodates an entire jazz combo; Teresa Harnish, the arty wife of an art dealer who decides to find out from a Cro-Magnon beach bum how the other half loves. For a change of pace, the heroine is frigid, or thinks...
...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...