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...only mythological scene, of the moon goddess Diana. The favorite Diana myth among painters showed her bathing with her nymphs (good opening for a painter to show what he could do with pretty nudes) and spied upon by a Peeping Tom of a hunter, Actaeon; whereat the virgin moon goddess, her modesty offended, changed him into a stag. In Vermeer's version, circa 1653-54, there is no Actaeon, no river, no nakedness, and instead of plunging into the stream, Diana is merely having her foot washed in a basin by a nymph--Christian paganism, complete with that image...
...with such luminaries as the British economist Harold J. Laski and the brothers William and Henry James. An excerpt from hi travel diary dated May 26, 1866 reads: "...Then with them [Henry Adams and his family] to Gladstones...had quite a long talk with the Panjandrum G[ladstone] himself--whereat people stared. G in consideration of my wounds made me sit and I was a great...
...Communist countries. Last week the head of ^ the rightist Greek Government, fat, cigar-smoking Premier Constantin Tsaldaris, was in London and gave a press conference. A correspondent confronted him with the UNRRA statement that supplies to Greece would be stopped because of political discrimination in handing them out, whereat Tsaldaris lost his temper and shouted: "Iff a lie, it's a slander! What right have you got to ask about the internal affairs of Greece?" The reporters began chanting "Freedom of the press!" and the Premier yelled and babbled until Greek officials hustled the audience out of earshot...
...scrutinize the wells whereat they drink...
...News, Chicago Tribune); by huge, well-heeled lobbies (America First Committee, scores of others). Their Senate numbers grew slightly, and their leaders were daisy-fresh and whip-smart. Lanky, dimpling Mr. Wheeler daily needled his foes so expertly that they forgot their vows of silence in roars of rage, whereat Mr. Wheeler cut them down as efficiently as a Greek sniper...