Word: tunic
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...illuminate that subject; but it was wonderful to observe how he showed that such a seemingly dead and gone thing could be a living influence, in so many different ways, upon this work-a-day world. It may seem a prodigious leap from Apelles to chromos, from the Greek tunic to ready-made clothes, or from the Parthenon to a house with a mansard roof covering nothing, but he took us over it lightly. Not to put up with what masquerades as excellence, not to be content with makeshifts, to know that to seek excellence is natural, and to learn...