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The Boston Museum of Fine Arts, despite its plethora of Copley, Gilbert Stuart, and Boston's favorite John Singer Sargent, is second only to the Metropolitan and the National Gallery among American museums. Its greatest prize is its collection of Chinese art, the largest and finest in the Occident, and...
When Commodore Perry, with his men at battle stations, "opened" the ports of Japan, the Mitsui sent out staff artists to make minutely detailed sketches of the Perry ships. These sketches helped the family build modern ships of their own. It was the first sign of the Jap flair for...
Geometricians of Virtue. "This retribution, which has a geometrical rigor, which operates automatically to penalize the abuse of force, was the main subject of Greek thought. It is the soul of the epic. Under the name of Nemesis, it functions as the mainspring of Aeschylus' tragedies. To the Pythagoreans...
"Such is the spirit of the only true epic the Occident possesses. . . .
And millions of people in the Occident cannot forget the Arab world because it includes Palestine. Ibn Saud personifies and constantly bespeaks the Arab case for an all-Arab Palestine. The U.S. and British Governments are committed to a Jewish Palestine-not necessarily all-Jewish, but with too many Jews...