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...most viewers the 23 Braque drawings will have an eerie dimension. Braque attempts to break the barriers of a dead language and recapture the almost childlike age when giants. Titans and nymphs shared the world with mortals and Olympian gods. The attempt, in the words of one French critic, becomes something akin to "adventurous voyages in the half-shadows of the irrational...
...mountain mothers spread their olympian "dinner-on-the-ground" in the groves of scrub oaks around the graveyard. The kids darted among the weathered tombstones and their rednecked fathers gathered to smoke and discuss politics and family ties. The Adams clan was distinguished by red ribbons, the Webbs wore yellow, and green ribbons identified the Crafts. By high noon, 600 cousins were on hand...
Along with the Olympian glow, there is another dominant note, the dark note of Churchill's growing concern for the shape and fate of the postwar world, his fear of Russian appetite for territory and power. The word "tragedy" in the title refers to the split between Russia and the West-the breakup of the "Grand Alliance"—which Churchill says he foresaw long before the end of the conflict. "The advance of the Soviet armies into Central and Eastern Europe in the summer of 1944 made it urgent to come to a political arrangement with the Russians about those...
...represented Australia in the 1952 Olympian where he placed 10th in the 200-meter breaststroke. He is also National AAU 100-yard and outdoor 200-meter butterfly breaststroke champion...
...whole exchange was conducted in the most Olympian of legal tones, but it did not take a lawyer to detect that the President would be walking into a first-class tussle when he made the new appointment...