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...seems that some time between Da Vinci and World War II, the idea of a single candidate for "Man of the Year" has become impossible, presumptuous, and a little bit of a gimmick. The complexities of modern civilization indicate the diversity and richness of a Barnard in medicine, the Beatles in music, possibly a "Leary" Johnson in politics, and a Paul in peace. Is there a man who stands for all of these...
...gonna put laht bulbs in Aunt Minnie's kitchen.'" Agrees U.C.L.A.'s Chancellor Franklin Murphy: "I'm not criticizing Johnson for not having cleaned up the ghettos overnight or having gotten the war closed up in a year or two. I don't think Leonardo da Vinci and Thomas Aquinas together could have accomplished that. What I am saying is that he made the huge mistake of implying, by way of rhetoric, that this could be done quickly and easily...
...pyramids and temples with obelisks and sphinxes, while Greece's Parthenon was glorified by the handiwork of Phidias. Michelangelo unified Florence's Piazza della Signoria with his 14-ft.-high David-which was positioned in front of the Palazzo Vecchio by a committee that included Leonardo da Vinci and Botticelli...
...kings to magnificently engraved crossbows for the attendant men-at-arms. But in the long history of weaponry, nothing quite matches the superb decoration of firearms developed during the Renaissance when physics and art, ballistics and sculpture were united under the guidance of such artistic geniuses as Leonardo da Vinci...
...manufacture of firearms was an exacting, highly skilled craft, and most great gunmakers were often jewelers or watchmakers, even scientists. It was a French goldsmith who invented one of the first true flintlocks; and although he was never a professional gunmaker, Leonardo da Vinci designed one of the first wheel locks. The makers of the best firearms took tremendous pride in their craft, signed their names to weapons along with dates, proverbs and poetry, and passed on their skills from father to son, sometimes over centuries...