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...from sheer love of beauty, for the pictures are often so superimposed, retouched and crowded as to be quite unesthetic. His motive was religious. The cavern murals are a form of sympathetic magic: depicting an animal gave the hunter power over it, made the kill easier. In the eerie, torchlit, painted chambers, professional sorcerers led the hunters in ceremonial dances before the chase. Sometimes they hurled their spears at the painted beasts or pictured in the paintings arrows, darts and traps to intensify the magic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: New Prehistoric Art Gallery | 7/28/1941 | See Source »

...peewee French officer, Rouget, in one chanceful, inspired evening composed The Marseillaise, which rang through the torchlit streets of Revolutionary France. But soon he became a counterRevolutionary, escaped with his life to live 40 dismal years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Jack Pots | 11/18/1940 | See Source »

...More than 1,000 torchlit Panamanians marched to the British and French Consulates in sympathy demonstrations, cheered and sang as emotion-choked French Vice Consul Pierre Mory thanked them, heard British Consul Lawrence Barnett express the British determination to continue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AMERICA: Swing to U. S. | 7/1/1940 | See Source »

...Pulitzer Prize for 1931, I'd Rather Be Right is a buttoned, if glistening, foil. The Kaufman-Ryskind play took a swift jab at the heart of the body politician, and the late George Gershwin's "Wintergreen for President" summed up the whole oompah spirit of torchlit political nonsense in a single musical phrase. The new play pokes playfully at a dozen current problems, much in the manner of the semi-annual Gridiron satires staged by the Washington correspondents. The music, with no particular motif to follow, becomes largely a utilitarian accompaniment to fit the rhyme...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 15, 1937 | 11/15/1937 | See Source »

...arrested and held for eight months in a fortress while he wrote Mein Kampf. In Munich, on this Nazi-hallowed ground, pink-cheeked Hitler Youths saluted Count Ciano and pink-cheeked Hitler Maidens offered him posies. Then with all Munich in carnival mood there was rollicking in the torchlit streets. Initialed Entente-Count Ciano, just before taking off from Munich for Rome, joined Baron von Neurath in handing out the text of an entente which they had initialed for Italy and Germany to signalize agreement last week on these points...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Dictators' Five Points | 11/2/1936 | See Source »

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